Daliah Heller

Daliah Heller is vice president of Overdose Prevention Initiatives at Vital Strategies and previously served as assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

From Athens to Rio de Janeiro, How Cities Are Reducing Drug-Related Harms

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As illicit drug markets create new risks and challenge health systems' capacity to respond, city leaders are pioneering new approaches to save lives

Wendell Lifford, who previously lived with a drug use disorder and helps run a drug addiction program at a local facility called House of Change, hugs another man, in the Sandtown neighborhood, in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 7, 2019.