Coaching overdose survivors to avoid the next one

Community Health Action of Staten Island recovery coaches Jamie Longo, left, and Tarik Arafat discuss care for people recovering from drug addiction and alcoholism in New York. In recovery themselves, they are among the growing number of trained addiction professionals on the front lines of the opioid epidemic. (Photo courtesy The Pew Charitable Trusts)
NEW YORK — Five months into his job at a 24-hour walk-in behavioral health center here on Staten Island, Tarik Arafat has a new assignment