6 Butte County Jail Inmates Have Suffered Opioid Overdoses Over Past 10 Days

OROVILLE (CBS13) — In conscionable nether 2 weeks, authorities accidental they person dealt with 3 aesculapian emergencies involving a full of six inmates for opioid overdoses astatine the Butte County County.

All the incidents person happened implicit the past 10 days, the Butte County Sheriff’s Office says.

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Correctional deputies say, successful each incident, they recovered inmates unresponsive and showing signs of an opioid overdose.

Each incidental saw the usage Naloxone to prevention the inmates’ lives, deputies say.

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Thanks to the speedy aesculapian intervention, the sheriff’s bureau says each six inmates are recovering. Five of the inmates are already backmost successful jailhouse custody, which the sixth inmate is besides expected to marque a afloat recovery.

A correctional lawman was exposed to fentanyl during 1 of the incidents, prompting the lawman to beryllium treated astatine a section infirmary for exposure. That lawman has besides since recovered.

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Deputies accidental a hunt of the jail’s lodging units has uncovered .07 grams of suspected fentanyl powder. All the affected areas wherever the fentanyl was recovered has since been decontaminated.

CBS13 Staff