Bus drivers in Seattle say they are becoming physically sick from fentanyl smoke from drug users on the busses after the city declared the drug a public health emergency.
Discovery Institute journalist Jonathan Choe discusses Seattle’s rampant addiction problem and how drug addicts are shooting up outside schools on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’
A Seattle bus driver says illegal drug use has become so rampant in the city that bus drivers are getting physically ill from"I really hadn’t ever heard of fentanyl smoking on the bus when I was hired by Metro," Stevon Williams, a bus driver for King County Metro, told KOMO News this week."I don’t want to be put in a predicament where I’m around drugs every day on my job. I didn’t sign up for that.
Williams told the outlet he is on leave from work while he undergoes medical testing for the negative effects from smoke on the bus. "You have people who are on there smoking right beside passengers, right beside mothers with little children. It’s for the drug users, they’re looked out for first," Williams added.KOMO News reported that there were 1,885 reports of drug use on
last year, and 52 transit operators reported they were exposed to drug smoke. Sixteen of those filed workers compensation claims.
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