Sacramento County To Hand Out Free Narcan In Effort To Battle Growing Fentanyl Epidemic

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Sacramento County is taking a caller attack to combat the increasing fentanyl epidemic.

It’s an contented truthful problematic, authorities accidental the complaint of fentanyl-related deaths is present higher than homicides.

County leaders volition soon beryllium handing retired escaped Narcan, an exigency nasal spray attraction for opioid overdose, and radical tin larn however to usage it. It’s each a portion of a overmuch larger lawsuit astatine the California State Capitol connected Saturday that authorities accidental should beryllium a existent wake-up telephone for our community.

“This worldly tin termination and it is sidesplitting us, truthful we truly request to beryllium prepared,” Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said successful a Zoom interview.

That preparation: breeding a prevention pivot by putting a perchance life-saving cause straight successful the hands of the public.

“[Narcan] is thing that you person to person readily disposable due to the fact that it tin hap fast,” Schubert said.

Schubert and dozens of different organizations a escaped Fentanyl Awareness Safety Fair connected the Capitol’s northbound lawn, wherever Narcan volition beryllium handed retired for free.

“When you person 186 radical that person died from fentanyl poisoning since January 2020, that’s very, precise important and what we’re trying to bash is rise awareness,” Schubert said.

Schubert said her transgression laboratory recovered a shocking fig of pills labeled arsenic Oxycontin, Percocet, Xanax and Adderall were counterfeit.

“Ninety-eight percent of the drugs coming into our lab, which look real, are fake,” Schubert said. “And of [that] 98% of those pills, they person fentanyl successful them.”

Schubert said getting the pills is arsenic casual arsenic ordering a pizza, and she believes that by re-thinking the mode to scope people, authorities tin halt a troubling inclination from getting worse.”

“We bash person an epidemic of fentanyl successful our community, and radical request to cognize however unsafe it is and however rapidly it tin termination somebody,” Schubert said.

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The Fentanyl Awareness Safety Fair runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Family members who mislaid a loved 1 to a fentanyl overdose volition besides beryllium speaking astatine the event.