King County announces new fentanyl overdose prevention actions

King County Executive Dow Constantine announces new actions to help prevent and address the surge of fentanyl overdoses in the county during a press conference on Monday, March 4, 2024. focuses on five priority areas to “expand behavioral health treatment, increase access to medications for opioid use disorder, and make overdose prevention tools and resources more widely available.”

Mobile clinics will also go to where drug users are to deliver help and more vending machines dispensing naloxone will put life-saving medications in more people's hands, according to county officials. “This is a major bottleneck within the process, having licensed, trained professionals that work in the substance use area,” said King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn.

“People are willing to accept the help,” said Brad Finegood, the strategic advisor for Public Health – Seattle & King County, “it's just maybe about providing different types of help. So it's up to us to innovate."KOMO News has covered countless stories of people losing loved ones and friends to the synthetic opioid. Many of them have pleaded for more action on policy to address the crisis.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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