Food and Drug Administration announced approval of an over-the-counter version of Narcan, called naloxone. “We need to have the pedal to the metal on both fronts,” Rice said. She said the county needs to ramp up access to Narcan, the nasal spray that can immediately reverse an overdose, and to increase public education and awareness. “I think one death every five days constitutes a public health crisis and a real emergency,” she said. Supervisor Katie Rice, who has been working on the issue for several years, said the rate of overdose deaths in Marin is alarming. “Our goal is to flatten the curve - just like we did with the COVID-19 pandemic.” “We’re coordinating a new infrastructure aimed at reversing this crisis,” Willis said. The coalition coordinates countywide strategies and includes Marin County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services, Public Health, health care providers, schools, and community members.
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OD Free Marin, a broad coalition dedicated to reducing the risk of drug overdoses, is working to turn that trend around, Willis told the county board. Even a small dose of fentanyl can kill within a few minutes. Fentanyl, which is 100 times more potent than morphine, is added by illicit manufacturers to other opioid pain relievers, and to fake pills that look like “safe” prescription drugs such as Percocet or Xanax. The huge increase is attributable to the rising proliferation of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. That is double the 30 deaths in 2018, and triple the 17 overdose deaths in 2015, Willis said.
Marin had between 60 and 70 overdose deaths in 2022 - the final number is still under investigation by the Marin County Sheriff’s Coroner’s Division - and 65 in 2021.
“Accidental drug overdose is the third most common cause of death in Marin for those under 75, after cancer and heart disease.” “About every five days, on average, we lose someone to a drug overdose,” Willis told the Marin Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The county, which has an average of one resident dying from an accidental drug overdose almost every week, will use the money to expand Marin’s overdose prevention staffing network beef up supplies of the overdose-reversal nasal spray Narcan and engage additional substance use treatment providers, Marin County Public Health Officer Dr. Marin County is set to receive $800,000 annually for nine years from a settlement with pharmaceutical companies, officials said this week.
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