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As COVID-19 rampages across New York, many localities are confronting another public health disaster: drastic spikes in drug overdoses and new cases of HIV. Fatal overdoses have doubled relative to last year in Albany and Onondaga County, and in 2020 the Rochester area reported more new cases of HIV than had been reported during the previous four years.
Yet medical professions say that widespread access to sterile syringes, a key tool for combatting both problems, is greatly hampered by the fact that the vast majority of New Yorkers cannot legally possess syringes.
Under New York law, syringe possession is a class-A misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail and a monetary fine. Thousands of New Yorkers have been arrested for syringe possession over the past decade, mostly on Long Island and upstate, according to data obtained by New York Focus/City & State from the Division of Criminal Justice Services. Public health experts and harm reduction advocates say that t