Sam Rivera: The 100 Most Influential People of 2023

'Sam Rivera has pioneered an approach to help, rather than abandon or simply jail—as we usually do—the roughly 7 million Americans with opioid use disorder,' writes Beth Macy TIME100

. And yet only a slim fraction—roughly 11%—of people with opioid use disorder managed to access evidence-based care in 2020. If we were being graded, that’s an F.

Sam Rivera has pioneered an approach to help, rather than abandon or simply jail—as we usually do—an estimated 7 million Americans with OUD. As executive director of OnPoint NYC, he meets drug users without judgment, instead offering support, clean needles, and critical connections to care that include providing medically supervised injection spaces at three sites in New York City.

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