Sunset Park’s NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn to receive program to reduce opioid deaths
Sunset Park’s NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn is one of two hospitals in the city recently selected by the New York City Department of Health to receive an opioid overdose program called Relay, which is part of HealingNYC, an effort to reduce opioid overdose deaths.
The program focuses on people who have survived an opioid overdose and therefore are at increased risk of fatal overdose. In the hours after an overdose event, a Relay “wellness advocate” — a trained peer advocate with firsthand experience of substance use — meets the patient in the emergency department to offer overdose risk reduction counseling, opioid overdose rescue training, and a naloxone kit.
NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn is now one of the 10 hospitals citywide to offer the program.