Except for an independent organization called the National Episcopal
Coalition on Alcoholism and Drugs, a handful of diocesan, councils that promote conferences on alcohol and drugs, and approximately a dozen concerned and courageous bishops who require clergy training in the subjects, the Episcopal Church, in which I am a priest, would have no focused program on chemical dependency at all, save one day a year called Alcohol Awareness Sunday.
Senator Klein was joined by Councilman Rafael Salamanca, members of the New York State Office of
Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS), Forward South Bronx
Coalition and the New York State Department of Health to provide the community with the life - saving medication Naloxone as well as hands -
on demonstrations for proper use.