Bronx hospital offers counseling, naloxone to patients with drug addictions in fight against city’s opioid epidemic

Patients who show up at the emergency room at the Bronx’s Lincoln Hospital will be met by counselors who can help them deal with addiction to opioids. And the hospital’s ER will distribute overdose-reversing naloxone kits. The facility’s primary care offices and pain management and behavioral health programs will also be equipped with the life-saving drug in a project that will expand to all the city’s public hospitals over the next six months.