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Join our New York News e-mail e-newsletter to get information, updates, and native insights delivered straight to your inbox! “It’s been too long.” “You’re just substituting one drug for another.” These are the issues I hear usually on the clinics I oversee in the Bronx and throughout the town. These phrases come from the frightened voices of oldsters, spouses, and kids involved about their family members receiving methadone remedy. However with the opioid disaster nonetheless raging, it’s time to confront the myths about methadone and acknowledge it as a lifesaving software. In 2022 alone, there have been greater than 100,000 deaths from drug…

A Brooklyn monsignor whose church had been subpoenaed amid the Eric Adams corruption investigation has been changed after allegedly mishandling $2 million in church funds and utilizing a church bank card for private bills, the Diocese mentioned in an announcement Monday. Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello, of Our Girl of Mount Carmel, was stripped “of any pastoral oversight or governance role at the Parish because he has mishandled substantial church funds and interfered with the administration of the Paris after being directed not to do so,” the assertion learn. On the time, the 2 claimed a decades-long friendship. Gigantiello was additionally the…