Fatal fentanyl overdoses in King County have declined 20% in the first six months of this year compared to the first half of 2023.
The rate of deadly overdoses dropped 15% in the first seven months of this year compared to the same time period last year.revealed fatal fentanyl overdoses have declined 20% in the first six months of this year compared to the first half of 2023. The county’s data showed there have been 751 fatal deaths to date this year compared to 1,339 fentanyl deaths in 2023, putting the daily numbers at 3.66 overdose deaths a day last year compared to 2.84 overdose deaths a day this year.
The county credited proactive steps for this drop, like its effort to widely distribute Naloxone — a life-saving medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. But fentanyl overdoses were the No. 1 cause of death for homeless people in King County in 2023, with officials knowing there’s still a long way to go in improving this crisis.
“People that we’ve seen overdose in one week or one month, and they did not want to be treated, they had a subsequent overdose that was fatal,” Seattle Fire Lieutenant and Paramedic Brian Wallace said.“She bought what she thought was Percocet a couple of days after she had graduated from beauty school and, sadly, she took what she thought was Percocet, and she never woke up,” Humphreys said.
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