NYC safe injection sites reduce OD deaths — but not in the worst neighborhoods
Yet residents of low-income neighborhoods of color are exactly those in which overdose deaths are supposed to be reduced by ...
Queens Chronicle5d
Pols: ‘Bring back our city employees’
The footage, recorded in March 2022, features the then-New York City commissioner of public health, Dr. Ashwin Vasan, shortly ...
Crain's New York11d
Q&A: Interim health commissioner on her vision for the agency in turbulent times
Where does your vision differ? New York has significant racial disparities in health care. In particular, Black New Yorkers ...
New York Daily News20d
Too many deaths: NYC overdose fatalities must be lowered
On his way out the door, NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan left office with a hint of what could be hopeful news: Overdose deaths dipped ever so slightly in 2023 after years of climbing ...
Gothamist24d
Exit interview: NYC's health commissioner reflects on his tenure in the Adams administration
New York City's Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan is stepping down a few months earlier than his original plan to leave in December. He's been health commissioner since Mayor Eric Adams took ...
AOL24d
Deadly drug overdoses are plummeting, and public health officials don't know why
Dr. Ashwin Vasan, commissioner of New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene who is leaving office Friday, said during the briefing that he was “cautiously and humbly excited” about ...
NBC 10 Philadelphia24d
Drug overdose deaths fall for 6 months straight as officials wonder what's working
After years of rising, the tide may finally be turning on deadly drug overdoses in America. Drug overdose deaths fell 12.7% in the 12 months ending in May, according to preliminary data released ...