Kansas City will hire two overdose investigators in an effort to crack down on rising fentanyl deaths in the western Missouri metropolis.
Kansas City will hire overdose investigators as part of the Missouri city's effort to lower the number of fentanyl deaths. An ordinance passed Thursday by the city council allows the city health department to hire two investigators and requires overdoses to be reported within 24 hours, the Kansas City Star reported. The health department now has access to overdose data that sometimes is up to two years old.
Kansas City police official told the newspaper that the agency has confiscated more than about 134 pounds of fentanyl so far this year, and Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said there was a suspected overdose every day but one in 2022 in Kansas City emergency rooms. 'Overdose deaths are at an epidemic level in Kansas City and fentanyl is driving the epidemic,' Lucas said. 'Overdose death numbers surpassed our homicide numbers in 2021.
Lucas said the board will include family members of overdose victims.
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