Saying it is time for New Yorkers to see the blueprint for the city’s opioid settlement money, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani held a press conference on Thursday, May 7, 2026. He announced that his administration will make public its plans for the city’s opioid settlement funds, a move that comes as the city continues to use settlement dollars for overdose prevention, harm reduction and treatment programs across all five boroughs.
What the mayor said
According to a post on X, Mamdani used Thursday’s event to outline how his administration plans to handle opioid settlement funds and related investments. The social post framed the press conference as a policy update coming directly from the mayor’s office.
Where the money has gone so far
The city has already been channeling opioid settlement proceeds into programs such as Relay, a peer-led, hospital-based overdose-response effort that the NYC Health Department expanded to a 16th hospital earlier this year. Hoodline previously reported on that expansion and…..