Fentanyl drug with warning label.STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images. The command center will also share and publicly report data on the impact of fentanyl in the city, as well as identify what gaps in service exist, respond to them and allocate resources to do so, the announcement...
States Push for Harsher Fentanyl Penalties amid Uptick in Overdose Deaths March 21, 2023Admin Several states are advocating for harsher fentanyl penalties as overdose deaths surge in the U.S. Nevada, Oregon, Alabama, Texas, West Virginia and South Carolina have all pushed to increase the length ...
Opioid drugs or Opiates which include legal prescription painkillers like oxycodone (OxyContin®), hydrocodone (Vicodin®), morphine, codeine, fentanyl, and others including heroin and opium (once widely used as medicine and now illegal) are central nervous system depressants. The primary mechanisms...
The number is nowhere close to adequate for the unparalleled demand of today, fueled by the pandemic, a dearth of affordable housing, rising homelessness and the surge in more potent meth and fentanyl. “We’re at a point where the imbalance between supply and...
She urged Vega Pederson to use her executive authority to greenlight an emergency procurement process under the county’s 90-day fentanyl emergency declaration for the sobering center. That would direct county staff to start drafting specs for a potential bui...
July 5, 2023 —Prevent occupational exposure to illicit fentanyl. News reports are full of illicit drugs leading to large numbers of overdose deaths. Among these are illicit forms of fentanyl (different from the pharmaceutical fentanyl that is used for routine patient care in many healthcare settin...
Along with the suspected meth, 3 pounds of suspected heroin, and 1.4 pounds suspected counterfeit pills containing fentanyl were confiscated.