Happy Holidays from Odyssey House!
We wish you a happy, peaceful Holiday Season and a New Year full of joy, prosperity, and good health. This year has brought challenges for all of us, and we thank you for the generosity and commitment you’ve shown us in these tough times. Your support has helped...
US author to give away £10,000 prize cash over role of sponsor in opioid crisis
by Lucy Knight The Guardian The American writer Patrick Radden Keefe has said he will give away the £10,000 (approximately $13,000 USD) he was awarded by a book prize whose sponsor helped to sell the opioid painkiller OxyContin. Radden Keefe’s damning investigative...
How to support Odyssey House on #GivingTuesday
On November 30, 2021, people all around the world are coming together to tap into the power of human connection and strengthen communities and change our world. Will you be one of them? This holiday season, we need your help to ensure every New Yorker in need can...
Inside Fentanyl’s Mounting Death Toll: ‘This Is Poison’
The New York Times By Sarah Maslin Nir Dark heroin cut with so much white powdered fentanyl that it’s known on the street as “gray.” Cocaine laced so frequently with fentanyl that club DJs stock anti-overdose medication. Fake prescription pain pills that are in fact...
How fentanyl affects the brain
The abuse of Fentanyl has become a major contributor to the national opioid addiction epidemic. Here’s how the synthetic drug affects the brain. Video/Image: Arielle Ray/The Wall Street Journal Video/Image: Arielle Ray/The Wall Street Journal Source: Drug Overdose...
