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Spencer Norris

Spencer Norris

Reporter at New York Focus

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    These 5 Charts Show How Hotels Became New York’s Response to Homelessness

    Social services agencies across the state now place nearly half of all individuals and families seeking shelter in hotels, leaving people without…
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    How Hotels Became New York’s Go-To Fix for Homelessness

    Statewide spending on hotels has more than tripled in recent years. The shift away from shelters has prevented families from accessing services like child…
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    We Tracked Addiction Treatment Gaps Between New York Prisons

    Some facilities enrolled hardly any patients for treatment — and across prisons, only one in ten treatment recipients was Black.
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    Hochul Seeks to Lower Drug Treatment Funding as Opioid Overdoses Soar

    Hochul’s budget would level off funding for addiction treatment — and use opioid settlement funds to fill the gaps.
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    Hochul's Plan to Fight the Opioid Crisis Is Way Behind

    In recent years, the distance New Yorkers have to travel for life-saving addiction medication has only gotten longer.
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    Calls Grow for Emergency Declaration as Opioid Crisis Hits Its Worst

    Governor Kathy Hochul has neglected to announce a public emergency over the increasingly deadly opioid epidemic. Observers are perplexed.
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    New York Sheriffs Tried to Kill Jail Opioid Treatment Law

    The Sheriffs’ Association lobbied against a bill to provide medication for opioid addiction in jails. Since it passed, they’ve failed to evaluate thousands of people for treatment.
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    ‘Doom County Jail’: Inside an Addiction Medication Program in Chaos

    Men locked up in the Broome County jail describe an opioid treatment program so shoddy, they risk withdrawal, relapse, and overdose.
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    As Overdose Deaths Climb in Albany County, Towns Rail Against Opioi...

    While the addiction epidemic gets worse in Albany County, residents want the state’s solutions kept out of their backyards.
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    New York Drug Courts Are a Black Box

    Mixed evidence was piling up about a signature New York drug policy experiment. Then the state stopped releasing the data.
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    Regulators Overlook Conditions as State Boosts Residential Treatment

    In New York’s byzantine residential treatment system, some residents don’t know their rights. Some don’t have any.
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    New York Mandates Peer Services. Jails Lock Them Out.

    Formerly incarcerated “peers” offer drug counseling to people in county jails — when they can get in.
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    Spencer Norris

    Spencer Norris is an investigative reporter covering homelessness for New York Focus and ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. He has exposed deficiencies in opioid treatment in New York’s jails and prisons, as well as a treatment desert spanning most of upstate. Spencer previously worked with the investigations team at the South Florida Sun Sentinel, where their reporting spurred reforms cracking down on sex trafficking and providing new protections for survivors. He earned his master’s degree…
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    Hochul Quietly Bets on Police to Battle Fentanyl

    The governor buried policies in her budget proposal that would give police and prosecutors more leverage over people with opioid addictions.