Kansas Metropolis will rent overdose investigators as a part of the Missouri metropolis’s effort to decrease the variety of fentanyl deaths.
An ordinance handed Thursday by town council permits town well being division to rent two investigators and requires overdoses to be reported inside 24 hours, the Kansas Metropolis Star reported. The well being division now has entry to overdose knowledge that generally is as much as two years previous.
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A Kansas Metropolis police official advised the newspaper that the company has confiscated greater than about 134 kilos of fentanyl to date this 12 months, and Kansas Metropolis Mayor Quinton Lucas stated there was a suspected overdose on daily basis however one in 2022 in Kansas Metropolis emergency rooms.
Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, will rent two new overdose investigators to fight rising fentanyl deaths. (Fox Information)
“Overdose deaths are at an epidemic stage in Kansas Metropolis and fentanyl is driving the epidemic,” Lucas stated. “Overdose loss of life numbers surpassed our murder numbers in 2021.”
The brand new ordinance additionally requires the creation of a evaluate board tasked with reviewing real-time knowledge on overdoses to get a greater deal with on the problem and work out methods to assist.
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Lucas stated the board will embrace members of the family of overdose victims.
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