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NetQuarterLatte t1_jardfuw wrote

>$1.4 million a year
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>the centers have helped prevent nearly 700 overdoses

Let's say those 700 overdoses were in a single year (they weren't, because they were operating since 2021, but let's do that to steelman the argument).

That's $2,000 per overdose prevented. A narcan dose costs between $22 and $60. (In Europe, that would cost $3)

That makes it quite profitable to be preventing overdoses. And actually reducing addition would be quite costly for this high growth industrial complex.

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actualtext t1_jatacvw wrote

The cost would be higher if the person needed to have either the NYPD and/or EMS called on them and then delivered to an ER potentially. Easy to forget but there's a lot of money being wasted when these ODs happens and require other city resources. These sites are probably much more effective when you start comparing all those factors.

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