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The state has released 2017 data on opioid trends and overdoses, and contained within those numbers is both good news and bad. First, the good news: In 2017, the statewide rate of opioid overdose deaths dropped to the lowest it’s been since 2012 . The bad news is that deaths due to the street drug fentanyl skyrocketed, from 240 fentanyl deaths in 2016 to 750 in 2017. Even more alarming: Kern County saw the biggest 1-year rise in overdose deaths from fentanyl of any California county. While fentanyl deaths rose 3-fold statewide from 2016 to 2017, in Kern County they jumped by a factor of 10. “The fentanyl issue is probably our single biggest concern,” said Karen Smith, director of the California Department of Public Health. “We’re concerned about every level of the opioid epidemic, but we really want to try to get a handle on this before it becomes an even bigger problem.” Of every 100,000 Californians, about 4 and a half died of an opioid overdose in 2017, down from over 5 deaths per
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