ยง 121. Powers of the authority. The authority, by and through its
board, shall have the following functions, powers and duties:
1. To coordinate and assist in activities in the city relating to drug
control;
2. To establish in-patient and out-patient treatment facilities for
persons addicted to the use of drugs and drug abusers. Such facilities
shall include, but shall not be limited to:
a. detoxification centers and clinics for the out-patient treatment of
drug abusers and addicts;
b. a treatment center where addicts may obtain professional counseling
from physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists and where possible, former
drug abusers and addicts;
c. half-way houses to provide continuing treatment for drug abusers
and addicts.
3. To create a referral program whereby drug abusers, addicts and
persons and agencies concerned with their treatment will make use of the
aforementioned treatment facilities;
4. To encourage and, when so requested, assist cooperative efforts
among state and city agencies in developing solutions to the drug
problem;
5. To establish one or more treatment districts within the city based
on geography and population density; and to employ a referral counselor
in each treatment district;
6. To encourage and foster, if possible, the use of former drug
abusers and persons formerly addicted to drugs as staff personnel;
7. To develop preventative educational programs and in the city of New
York, to assist narcotic guidance councils of community boards in the
development of such programs;
8. Outside the city of New York, to act as agent for the city in
accepting any public or private funds which may be made available to the
city to combat the problems of drug abuse;
9. To make a continuing evaluation of the preventative educational
techniques and pharmacological and psychiatric treatment procedures used
in the city;
10. To utilize former drug abusers and ex-addicts in educational
counseling and make periodic evaluations of their effectiveness;
11. To establish youth centers to provide individual and group therapy
and develop constructive work habits;
12. To develop a program designed to educate and enlighten parents on
detection, prevention and treatment of problems relating to drug use and
in the city of New York to assist narcotic guidance councils of
community boards in the development of such programs.