On June 4, 2026, Ald. Rossana Rodríguez Sánchez appeared on the AirGo Podcast. In this episode, she covered a variety of topics: from the successes of the 33rd Ward Working Families over the last 11 years, the realization of Treatment not Trauma as the CARE program, to the aspirations of building a movement to create Overdose Prevention Sites in Chicago. Below, we have provided two excerpts while also embedding the full video of the podcast.

Ald. Rodríguez Sánchez on Overdose Prevention Sites:

I was in New York York last weekend visiting the Overdose Prevention Center, and I want that. I want us to have that in Chicago. We could save so many lives. So the Overdose Prevention Center is a safe use site, among other things. They have a lot of wraparound services, but there is a safe use site. And I am a different person after going inside of that room. I think that the way in which they were able to understand the humanity of somebody that uses substances. I was floored. And I want to be able to provide that for the people of Chicago who use. I think people deserve that kind of dignity.

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[OnPoint NYC] did a feasibility study, and they understood that they could save, in the small scale, they could save about 250 lives in the first year of people that were using. They saved over 600 lives. And while I was in the room, there was a person that was using, and, his heart rate got really low. A doctor immediately came in and talked to him and convinced him to use a little bit of naloxone, and his life was saved. If this man was in the park, he probably would not be alive because his heart rate got just dangerously low. Witnessing that was really important for me to be able to see that and to think about the fact that the way that this society treats people who use, the way that the society treats people who are unhoused, the way that this society treats people who struggle with mental health issues... It is so inhumane, and it is so removed from what I want for society. So I really want to build that model here.

Please see the full video, embedded below.