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Demonstrators arrested protesting federal prosecutor weighing shutdown of overdose prevention centers

By Ben Brachfeld Posted on August 31, 2023
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Eighteen demonstrators were arrested Thursday outside the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, where the feds are publicly mulling a crackdown on the city’s two overdose prevention centers (OPCs).

The arrests came on International Overdose Awareness Day, a commemoration of the tens of thousands of people who die of overdoses each year and a call to action to prevent them in the future. The 18 people arrested represent the 18 New Yorkers who die of preventable overdose deaths each day, activists say.

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