Law enforcement and health professionals in Fresno are reeling after three people overdosed last week on the opioid drug fentanyl. The men snorted what they thought was cocaine, said Fresno Deputy Police Chief Pat Farmer in a press conference on Monday. The three men, who took the drug together on …
Read More »State Corrects Alarming Fentanyl Overdose Data
Recent state data that had raised the alarm on opioid overdose deaths turns out to have been inaccurate. In late May, new data from the California Department of Public Health had pointed to an alarming trend: The number of Californians who died of overdoses due to the street drug fentanyl …
Read More »California’s Fentanyl Overdoses Are Up, And They’ve Hit Kern County Hard
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 …
Read More »Sacramento fentanyl overdoses show opiate addiction’s toll knows no boundaries
Overdoses linked to pills laced with painkiller fentanyl rise to 36 in the Sacramento area Nine deaths related to the street drug have been reported since March 24 The DEA is leading the investigation and ‘working around the clock on this’ … Click to Continue »
Read More »Deadly street drug fentanyl kills again in Sacramento
A father of three young children, Jerome Butler, was taken off life support Wednesday afternoon Fentanyl first surfaced in 2006 in the Midwest as a strong opiate It’s been blamed for seven deaths in Sacramento County, with 21 other overdoses … Click to Continue »
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