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Show Transcript to our state of addiction coverage. Opioids continue to be a growing problem here in northern California. And the latest California statistics from 2019 show more than 3200 people have died from opioid overdoses, deaths related to fentaNYL are at 16 hundreds will. Now there s an effort to get more of what patients call the magical or miracle medication out to people who are suffering in this case. The only three investigation Brittany johnson takes a deep dive into the pros and cons of what increased access to buprenorphine means for California. Yeah, three years ago I was sleeping in the gutter, eating out of garbage cans and and now uh I m able to do whatever I want every day. Those drugs no longer have a hold on me. Randi Brown s downward spiral began about 20 years ago. A truck driver at the time Brown was hurt on the job and suffered a back injury. He went from never taking any opioids to I was g