New York Daily News

Marching to stamp out drug ODs

- Catherina Gioino and Reuven Blau

WEARING BLACK veils and armbands, about 100 advocates marched through Manhattan on Thursday to highlight the need for more overdose prevention services.

They held signs with pictures of overdose victims as they walked from the Harm Reduction Coalition office on W. 27th St. to the city’s central morgue at Bellevue Hospital.

The march, complete with jazz musicians, mimicked a New Orleans style funeral procession.

“We have more people dying of drug overdoses in this country, in this state, and in this city than ever before in history,” said Jeremy Saunders, 39, co-executive director of Vocal New York.

More than 3,000 people in New York State died of overdoses in 2016. “Not one more!” the marchers yelled.

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