GRANDVIEW, Wash. - Representative Dan Newhouse established the Central Washington Fentanyl Task Force in May 2023. Rep. Newhouse and the task force held their first quarterly meeting in Grandview today.
The Biden administration recently declared fentanyl laced with xylazine – an animal sedative commonly known as “tranq” – to be an emerging threat facing the United States, and a new analysis of toxicology reports illustrates its sharp rise.
we are learning new and disturbing details about the deadly impact of america s fentanyl crisis. just released data showing the highly dangerous drug kill agreeing number of children. cnn medical correspondent meg terrell is here to break it down. what is in this data? what does it show? yes, it is really alarming looking at the fentanyl overdose deaths of the kids under 20 in the last two decades, the numbers have gone up dramatically in the last decade and mirroring what we have seen in the adults, but nearly 5,000 kids have died from fentanyl poisoning, and look at data, that started to pick up in 2013 and in terms of the age groups that is affected here, it is the
multiple families and students said this and yet had to get to this point. if fear had something to do with that as well. which is not okay. bill: exposing himself in the locker room. not good. nope. bill: fentanyl overdose deaths. stunning. we re up 279% since 2016. wow. seven years. yes. i think that you can t ignore the fact that a lot of this has happened as prescriptions for opioids have gone down. a lot of those have gone down. a lot of these aren t overdose saying i want to take fentanyl they are poisoning where they were thought they were taking a pill and there is fentanyl in it. it is easy to smuggle and a lot of people who smuggle drugs want to smuggle something more potent that s easier to transport. that prohibition has led to this and it s important to discuss it. these are poisonings. don t do fentanyl is something a lot of people have internalized.