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Meanwhile students in California are forced to wade through fentanyl dens on the way to and from school.
What’s your message to them… from Arkansas?pic.twitter.com/70S4IMltDu
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) April 4, 2023
Are these drugs even illegal anymore?
I thought they were not.
What is the point of monitoring them?
As the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, a California county is using the same wastewater monitoring program it used to track the coronavirus to go after another deadly public health crisis: opioids.
Marin County, north of San Francisco, began a pilot program in February to collect wastewater samples from its sanitation agency and test them for the presence of substances like fentanyl, methamphetamines, cocaine, and nicotine.
Local authorities hope the data could be beneficial in assisting prevention and intervention efforts. For example, if there is an abundance of opioids present in the samples, they could boost the distribution of Narcan, which rapidly reverses the effects of the illegal drug, especially when given within minutes of the first signs of an overdose.
“The problem of overdose is a public health crisis. We’re losing one resident every five days in Marin County,” said Dr. Matt Willis, Marin County’s public health officer. “And so we really think it’s important for us to develop the same kind of surveillance methods, the same kind of intelligence we had applied to the COVID-19 pandemic, to this new crisis of overdoses.”
Marin County, like many other places in the U.S., is grappling with a drug epidemic. Overdose deaths rose from 30 in 2018 to 65 in 2021, according to the county’s department of health and human services.
The county used the same method and partners to monitor for evidence of the spread of the coronavirus, so the infrastructure for the pilot program is largely in place.
Well, okay then.
