City Councilmember Quetcy Lozada put the bills on hold after city officials testified during a tense committee hearing that they already keep some of the data she sought.
Philly City Council postpones effort to require data collection on overdose reversals and homeless encampments
The legislation marked the latest move by Council to change how the city responds to the drug overdose crisis, which led to a record 1,413 deaths in 2022. A group of four Democrats led by Lozada has sought to She and her allies want anonymized information about the number of people living in homeless encampments, as well as concentrations of people who are repeatedly administered naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal medication also known as Narcan.
But he said identifying the number of people who are repeatedly administered naloxone could be a challenge. First responders often never learn the names of people who are treated because, he said, many patients refuse further medical treatment after being revived.City Councilmember Rue Landau, a Democrat who represents the city at-large, said her takeaway from McCall’s testimony was that the city already has much of the information the legislation required it collect.
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