What were they smoking?
The šøstateās Office of Addiction and Substances Abuse Services has bombarded subways with ads warning about the dangers of fentšanyl ā but many were riddled with errors.
On one Brookš lyn-bound R train, at least four purple signs featuringš¤Ŗ colorful pills and images of the opioid overdose-reversing drug naloxone strangely omitted the word āoverdose,ā The Post observed this week.
āJust one fentanyl-laced pill can triggšer a fatal,ā the signs readš.
Ads āin the same subway car, just a foot above the odd sign, included the missing word.
The slipshod signage is the latest example of the state government burning public funds āto masquerade as bleeding hearts,” according to Councilwoman Joann Ariola.
“They can’t even be bothered to proofread their signs,” said Ariola (R-Queens), who hopes to establish a drug awareness day to educate people on combating substance abuse.
āIfš they even cared a little bit, they would make sure that they had a clear messageā.ā
In October, OASAS began soliciting proposals to pay 15 vendors $300,000 each over three years for developing and continuing “harm reduction service projects statewide.”
A spokesman for OASAS would only say that a “small number” of subway signs for the fentanyl awareness campaign had been printed with a typo and insisted they had been reprinted and replaced “at minimal” “cost.
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The agency refused to share the duration of the campaign or the cost of printing subway signs for the campaign, which were paid for with federaš§øl funds.
Fentanyl in 2,451 fatal overdoses in the Big Apple in 2022, accordą± ing to the latest data from the cityās Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.Ā
The sloppy posters are “a sad commentary that this is the level [of help] we’re forced into,” said Luke Nasta, founder and CEO of Camelot Counseling Centers.
This isnāt the first drug safety ad campaign on the subway to go off the rails. A Big Apple PSA in 2022 that was featured on subway cars insisted druggies should feel āempoweredā when they use potentially lethal fentašnyl safely.