{"id":222568,"date":"2026-05-06T22:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222568\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:35:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-former-president-clinton-comes-to-brooklyn-for-18m-expansion-of-addiction-treatment-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222568\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Former President Clinton Comes To Brooklyn For 18m Expansion Of Addiction Treatment Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Former President Bill Clinton was in Brooklyn on Wednesday to help break ground on an $18 million renovation and expansion project for Anchor House, a residential treatment program for people recovering from drug addiction.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI believe in the God of second chances, and I\u2019ve needed a lot of them,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cSo this is a place of second chances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anchor House provides residential treatment and support services for people battling substance use disorders. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The expansion project will include a brand-new residential building for men and renovations to the current facility, located on Bergen Street in Crown Heights. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The groundbreaking comes as overdose deaths in New York are declining. State officials say overdose deaths statewide are down 43% since 2022.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Clinton Foundation\u2019s Overdose Response Network has been supporting the fight against the overdose crisis nationwide.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cAs long as there\u2019s one person dying unnecessarily, keep going,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cEverybody counts, and everybody deserves a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Construction is expected to take several years. Once completed, the expanded facility will be able to house 70 men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former President Bill Clinton was in Brooklyn on Wednesday to help break ground on an $18 million renovation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-222568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}