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"content": "\u003cp>In a number of primary races for district attorney in counties around the Bay Area, incumbent DAs — both liberal and more conservative — were holding on to their offices. Sitting prosecutors in Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Solano counties had strong leads over their challengers. But in San Joaquin County, the progressive DA was in a tight race with her Republican challenger. In the race for an open seat in Alameda County, a progressive and a more traditional candidate were the top two early vote-getters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District attorney elections in California have become increasingly heated in recent years, with progressive candidates facing off against more traditional law-and-order prosecutors, in a bid to reduce incarceration and address systemic racism and economic inequality in the criminal justice system. But some of those reformers who were elected are now facing backlash from moderate and conservative voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the most high-profile example, San Francisco’s progressive prosecutor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913102/we-are-all-more-than-our-worst-mistake-five-takeaways-from-sf-district-attorney-chesa-boudins-discussion-at-kqed\">Chesa Boudin\u003c/a> — a former public defender elected DA in 2020 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">was defeated\u003c/a> by a well-funded recall campaign that capitalized on voters’ anxiety about crime. In Los Angeles, meanwhile, opponents of progressive DA George Gascón are gathering signatures to put a recall measure on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state level, though, liberal Attorney General Rob Bonta, who was appointed last year by Gov. Gavin Newsom, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916206/california-attorney-general-rob-bonta-easily-advances-to-november-election-to-face-republican-challenger\">was well ahead\u003c/a> of his more conservative challengers. He will face one of two closely matched Republicans in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In local district attorney races around the Bay Area and beyond, similar tensions are at play, as voters debate whether public safety is best achieved through tougher prosecutions and sentencing or an approach that favors rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voters want solutions, and that can mean services and treatment as much as it can mean incarceration,” said Cristine Soto DeBerry, director of the progressive Prosecutors Alliance of California. “It’s new for us to elect reform-minded candidates into prosecutor’s offices. I’m encouraged. Many of them won, and all of them stimulated a conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some counties, notably Alameda, the results won’t be clear until November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/political-parties/no-party-preference#top-two-candidates\">“top two” primary system\u003c/a>, if one candidate wins a majority of votes in this election, the race is decided. If no one gets a majority, the two candidates with the greatest number of votes, regardless of political party, will face off in the November general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIncumbent DA Diana Becton, a former judge first elected district attorney in 2018, held on to her seat \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914643/contra-costas-da-sent-a-sheriffs-deputy-to-prison-now-law-enforcement-groups-are-spending-big-to-defeat-her\">in the face of a strong challenge\u003c/a> from a fellow Democrat who’s a deputy prosecutor in her office, Mary Knox. Late Tuesday evening, Becton had 57% to Knox’s 43%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becton is considered a progressive prosecutor and made headlines last fall when she won a conviction against former Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Hall in the fatal shooting of Laudemer Arboleda. Becton, along with Boudin and Gascón, was a founding member of the progressive Prosecutors Alliance of California, established in 2020 in the wake of the George Floyd murder. Knox had the backing of many law enforcement groups across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Contra Costa County voters have spoken clearly to indicate that they really want a criminal justice system that is about safety, but that is always also about fairness and equality for everyone,” said Becton. “We’ve adopted new and innovative approaches that move us beyond a singular reliance on incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Joaquin County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTori Verber Salazar was running narrowly behind fellow Republican Ron Freitas, a prosecutor in her office. She is another incumbent DA who has staked out a progressive stance on fighting crime but was at risk of losing her seat. With votes still being counted, Freitas had 51% to Salazar’s 49%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/prosecutor-quits-california-district-attorney-association-tori-salazar/\">Salazar quit the California District Attorneys Association\u003c/a>, saying it was resisting voter-backed criminal justice reform efforts aimed at reducing incarceration. She became another founding member of the progressive \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/prosecutor-quits-california-district-attorney-association-tori-salazar/\">Prosecutors Alliance\u003c/a>. In his campaign, Freitas said he would work to lengthen prison sentences. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-freitas-san-joaquin-county-district-attorney-black-juror_n_62955ce9e4b0415d4d89068d\">Freitas came under scrutiny\u003c/a> over a federal judge’s finding in 2009 that he had wrongly excluded a Black man from a jury on the basis of his race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDistrict Attorney Krishna Abrams appeared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915246/solano-countys-race-for-district-attorney\">fend off a challenge\u003c/a> from her chief deputy, Sharon Henry, who has called for more independent oversight of law enforcement and an acknowledgement of racial bias in policing. Tuesday night Abrams had 61% to Henry’s 39%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams had strong backing from police groups. But she was widely criticized when she recused her office from pursuing charges in two fatal Vallejo police shootings, citing a lack of public trust. The state Attorney General’s office said she had abdicated responsibility. Henry, who claims support from liberals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/chief-deputy-to-challenge-krishna-abrams-as-solano-da/\">took Abrams to task\u003c/a> for the recusal and for the running of the office, which she complained is plagued by favoritism and a lack of diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDistrict Attorney Jeff Rosen won reelection without a runoff Tuesday, even though he\u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/election-2022-the-race-for-santa-clara-county-district-attorney-da-jeff-rosen-sajid-khan-daniel-chung/\"> faced two challengers\u003c/a>: Sajid Khan, a deputy public defender running to Rosen’s left, and deputy DA Daniel Chung, who cast himself as a tougher prosecutor. Rosen had 59% of the vote to Chung’s 24% and Khan’s 17%, on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen, who has held the job since 2010, describes himself as a prosecutor who takes a balanced approach, citing endorsements from both police associations and civil rights groups such as the NAACP. Khan campaigned on his opposition to cash bail and gang enhancements, and his support for diversion programs and holding police accountable for misconduct. Chung opposes some progressive voter-approved reforms, including downgrading the penalties for drug possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Santa Clara County leads the way in technology, diversity and the smart and balanced way we strive to handle criminal justice,” said Rosen. “Today’s vote once again shows there is a mandate for safety and fairness — not one at the expense of the other, but both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn November, voters in Alameda County are likely to choose between outspoken progressive Pamela Price, a former public defender and civil rights attorney, and veteran prosecutor Terry Wiley, who favors many progressive approaches but is perhaps the most traditional candidate. In early returns, Price and Wiley were the top two vote-getters \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/05/06/alameda-county-da-race-candidates-pimary-election-2022/\">in a four-way race\u003c/a> to succeed incumbent District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, who is retiring. Price had 40% and Wiley had 31% of the vote late Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley, in his three decades in the DA’s office, has overseen investigations of police shootings and touts his work on restorative justice, as well as his years of experience prosecuting criminals. 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If no one gets a majority, the two candidates with the greatest number of votes, regardless of political party, will face off in the November general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIncumbent DA Diana Becton, a former judge first elected district attorney in 2018, held on to her seat \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914643/contra-costas-da-sent-a-sheriffs-deputy-to-prison-now-law-enforcement-groups-are-spending-big-to-defeat-her\">in the face of a strong challenge\u003c/a> from a fellow Democrat who’s a deputy prosecutor in her office, Mary Knox. Late Tuesday evening, Becton had 57% to Knox’s 43%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becton is considered a progressive prosecutor and made headlines last fall when she won a conviction against former Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Hall in the fatal shooting of Laudemer Arboleda. Becton, along with Boudin and Gascón, was a founding member of the progressive Prosecutors Alliance of California, established in 2020 in the wake of the George Floyd murder. Knox had the backing of many law enforcement groups across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Contra Costa County voters have spoken clearly to indicate that they really want a criminal justice system that is about safety, but that is always also about fairness and equality for everyone,” said Becton. “We’ve adopted new and innovative approaches that move us beyond a singular reliance on incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Joaquin County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTori Verber Salazar was running narrowly behind fellow Republican Ron Freitas, a prosecutor in her office. She is another incumbent DA who has staked out a progressive stance on fighting crime but was at risk of losing her seat. With votes still being counted, Freitas had 51% to Salazar’s 49%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/prosecutor-quits-california-district-attorney-association-tori-salazar/\">Salazar quit the California District Attorneys Association\u003c/a>, saying it was resisting voter-backed criminal justice reform efforts aimed at reducing incarceration. She became another founding member of the progressive \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/prosecutor-quits-california-district-attorney-association-tori-salazar/\">Prosecutors Alliance\u003c/a>. In his campaign, Freitas said he would work to lengthen prison sentences. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-freitas-san-joaquin-county-district-attorney-black-juror_n_62955ce9e4b0415d4d89068d\">Freitas came under scrutiny\u003c/a> over a federal judge’s finding in 2009 that he had wrongly excluded a Black man from a jury on the basis of his race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDistrict Attorney Krishna Abrams appeared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915246/solano-countys-race-for-district-attorney\">fend off a challenge\u003c/a> from her chief deputy, Sharon Henry, who has called for more independent oversight of law enforcement and an acknowledgement of racial bias in policing. Tuesday night Abrams had 61% to Henry’s 39%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams had strong backing from police groups. But she was widely criticized when she recused her office from pursuing charges in two fatal Vallejo police shootings, citing a lack of public trust. The state Attorney General’s office said she had abdicated responsibility. Henry, who claims support from liberals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/chief-deputy-to-challenge-krishna-abrams-as-solano-da/\">took Abrams to task\u003c/a> for the recusal and for the running of the office, which she complained is plagued by favoritism and a lack of diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDistrict Attorney Jeff Rosen won reelection without a runoff Tuesday, even though he\u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/election-2022-the-race-for-santa-clara-county-district-attorney-da-jeff-rosen-sajid-khan-daniel-chung/\"> faced two challengers\u003c/a>: Sajid Khan, a deputy public defender running to Rosen’s left, and deputy DA Daniel Chung, who cast himself as a tougher prosecutor. Rosen had 59% of the vote to Chung’s 24% and Khan’s 17%, on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen, who has held the job since 2010, describes himself as a prosecutor who takes a balanced approach, citing endorsements from both police associations and civil rights groups such as the NAACP. Khan campaigned on his opposition to cash bail and gang enhancements, and his support for diversion programs and holding police accountable for misconduct. 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"content": "\u003cp>Santa Clara County moved forward last week with plans for a new jail, a move sharply criticized by opponents who for years have urged officials to use the funds for a mental health treatment center instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than three hours of heated public comment, the county Board of Supervisors in a 3-2 vote narrowly approved construction of the $390 million facility, while pledging to keep the treatment facility idea on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new 500-bed jail will be built in downtown San José on the former site of Main Jail South, which was demolished in 2020. The remaining Main Jail North facility, and at least part of the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas, will also be torn down or vacated as part of the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Stephen Manley\"]'It's not just in Santa Clara County. 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The number of individuals coming into the criminal justice system who are mentally ill is increasing proportionately.'[/pullquote]The decision ultimately came down to the county’s dire need for a new jail, said Supervisor Otto Lee, noting that its jail facilities were built decades ago, and are largely dilapidated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What a lot of people might not understand is that we actually do \u003cem>not\u003c/em> have a humane carceral facility to house those in our county right now,” said Lee, pointing to the jail system's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11884772/horrific-incidents-in-jails-prompt-santa-clara-county-supervisors-call-for-investigations-of-sheriff\">troubled history of abuse and neglect\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When first proposed in 2018, the idea for a new county jail was not expected to be so controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it largely wasn’t, until the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, sparked by the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county board garnered media attention when supervisors voted unanimously that fall to halt jail construction and explore building a mental health care facility as an alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=12379&Inline=True\">survey of 800 registered voters in the county\u003c/a>, commissioned last year by the board, only 10% of respondents said they wanted a new jail, while 34% said they supported the construction of a behavioral health facility, and another 34% favored some combination of the two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that beginning in the summer of 2020, we started experiencing another resurgence of attention to how our criminal legal system works, how many people we incarcerate, and really taking a serious look at how many of those folks would actually be better served in other environments,” said Supervisor Susan Ellenberg, who called for the postponement and joined Supervisor Cindy Chavez last week in opposing the jail plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellenberg is among a growing number of local leaders across the state pushing to increase access to public mental health resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county does offer a range of resources for varying levels of mental health treatment, including two mobile crisis response teams and a limited number of beds in small treatment programs. But those services fall far short of meeting the growing need in this very large county, say mental health advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we need, in fact, is an entire range of facilities,” Ellenberg said. “But opportunities to move — always thinking about the least restrictive environments to be able to move through a continuum of care. I'm interested in a range of facilities that are run by health care professionals … that are not overseen by the Department of Corrections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, a growing number of local leaders in California, from supervisors to district attorneys, have pushed to provide more mental health treatment programs as alternatives to incarceration. Among the highest-profile examples is Los Angeles County, home to the state’s largest jail system, which \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/dhs/1105469_ClinicalProgramsDashboardMarch2021.pdf\">has transferred more than 7,000 people from jails\u003c/a> into community-based mental health programs since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors also drew headlines last year when it \u003ca href=\"https://fox40.com/news/local-news/sacramento-county-board-of-supervisors-vote-to-deny-main-jail-expansion-project/\">voted against expanding the county’s jail system\u003c/a> in favor of alternative treatment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a dwindling supply of public mental health resources available, jails have increasingly become the dumping grounds for people with serious mental illness who commit minor, nonviolent crimes. Nationally, roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/storage/documents/backgrounders/smi-in-jails-and-prisons.pdf\">20% of people in jails \u003c/a>suffer from serious mental illness, according to the Treatment Advocacy Center. In California, that rate is even more stark: A whopping 31% of the state’s jail population in 2019 had an open mental health case, a more than 60% increase from a decade ago, \u003ca href=\"https://calhps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jail_MentalHealth_JPSReport_02-03-2020.pdf\">California Health Policy Strategies reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"criminal-justice\"]An estimated 25% of Santa Clara County’s roughly 2,400 inmates have a serious mental illness, Sheriff Laurie Smith \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-sheriff-laurie-smith-jail-mentally-ill-mental-illness/\">told the San José Spotlight\u003c/a> in an interview last fall. “I think the bottom line is that the jails have become the de facto mental health system,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/laurie-smith-sheriff-santa-clara-county-sheriffs-office/11341736/\">has since been accused by a grand jury of corruption and jail mismanagement\u003c/a> for, among other things, allegedly failing to cooperate with an internal investigation into the treatment of an incarcerated person \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/01/santa-clara-county-releases-video-in-jail-injury-case-fueling-supervisors-sheriff-scrutiny/\">undergoing a psychiatric crisis\u003c/a>, who suffered a severe head injury while being transported between jail facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not just in Santa Clara County. 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The guidance comes as the delta variant continues to spread across the Bay Area, sparking stark increases in case numbers and hospitalizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we really want to do is empower businesses and say that public health is fully behind these types of requirements,” said Dr. Naveena Bobba, the deputy health director for San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recommendations announced by health officials on Thursday fell short of making vaccines a work requirement, but health officials strongly urged businesses to push their employees to get the shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know COVID isn’t going away,” said Dr. Chris Farnitano, Contra Costa County’s health officer. “The choice now is to get vaccinated or get COVID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two major employers in San Francisco have already issued vaccine requirements: the city and county as well as the University of California, San Francisco. 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Deaths in 2020 from opioids alone — 69,710 — nearly eclipsed the total number of fatal overdoses in the previous year, although deaths involving other drugs such as methamphetamine and cocaine also contributed to the increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's urgent, Volkow said, for governments and agencies to widen access to treatment for people who are suffering from substance use disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR's Brian Mann \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/19/1006891729/overdose-deaths-rose-during-the-war-on-drugs-but-efforts-to-reduce-them-face-bac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported last month\u003c/a>, \"If current trends continue, illicit drugs will soon kill more Americans every day than COVID-19.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before 2016, more Americans died from heroin overdoses annually than from powerful synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, according to the CDC. But the number of lives lost to overdoses from synthetic opioids has soared since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 57,000 people died from synthetic opioids (predominantly fentanyl) last year, compared with around 13,000 people who died from heroin overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=news_11874651,news_11874753,forum_2010101883209]Fentanyl's properties are similar to morphine — but it's \"50 to 100 times more potent,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/fentanyl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse\u003c/a>. It is also frequently cut into other illegal drugs, including cocaine. That dangerous trend has triggered outreach efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/05/1013203805/party-drugs-are-being-increasingly-laced-with-fentanyl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">train people in using naloxone\u003c/a>, which can reverse an opioid overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government has been taking steps to address drug addiction and overdoses, said Chuck Ingoglia, President and CEO of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Congress recently has appropriated lots of new dollars to try to address this,\" he said. \"And it's been interesting to see that the Biden-Harris administration is really prioritizing the full continuum of interventions, everything from harm reduction to increased treatment capacity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said \u003ca href=\"https://appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releases/appropriations-committee-releases-fiscal-year-2021-labor-hhs-education-funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the House appropriations bill\u003c/a> also includes funding for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1007805678/needle-exchanges-access-to-safer-narcotics-could-save-lives-but-its-a-tough-sell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">syringe exchange programs\u003c/a>, which he said is the first time the federal government has explicitly called for this \"vital component of harm reduction interventions.\" But unless there is long-term funding to create a system to address drug addiction, Ingoglia said, it may be hard to prevent overdoses in the long run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR health correspondent Rhitu Chatterjee contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Deaths from fentanyl overdoses have been on the rise during the pandemic. In Santa Clara County, the ages of the victims are trending younger, according to an analysis by KQED and the \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://documentingcovid19.io/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://documentingcovid19.io/home\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Documenting COVID-19 project\u003c/a> at Columbia University’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fentanyl can be laced into pills that look like common painkillers — and thanks in part to COVID-19, buying these drugs online has become even more convenient. Now, parents and officials alike are trying to educate kids and community members about how much more lethal this synthetic opioid really is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guest\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SmallRadio2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julie Small\u003c/a>, KQED criminal justice & immigration reporter\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Columbia University students Mohar Chatterjee and Kyra Sense contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here Are Resources for Opioid Addiction in the Bay Area:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More information about opioid addiction and fentanyl can be found on the \u003ca href=\"http://choosechangeca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Choose Change California website\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://bhsd.sccgov.org/information-resources/substance-use-resources-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services\u003c/a> treats people struggling with stress and substance use issues, including fentanyl use, through a program called \u003ca href=\"https://bhsd.sccgov.org/get-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gateway\u003c/a>, and the phone number is 1-800-488-9919.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://sf-goso.org/health-treatment/health-care/san-francisco-behavioral-health-access-center-bhac-health-treatment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco County offers behavioral health care\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/comupg/oservices/mentalHlth/SubstanceAbuse/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">services for addiction and substance abuse treatment\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.acbhcs.org/substance-use-treatment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alameda County offers similar services\u003c/a> to people struggling with addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Episode transcript \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3wQx8hx\">here\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Subscribe to our newsletter \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeiQTfCnzwvOkxyTf8kUNPHsaoishgMkbMpQ25W5UpHOn9bw/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Follow \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\">\u003ci>The Bay\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> to hear more local Bay Area stories like this one. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. Find The Bay on \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452?mt=2\">\u003ci>Apple Podcasts\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>, \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ\">\u003ci>Spotify\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>, \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay\">\u003ci>Stitcher\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>, NPR One or via \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/KQED-The-Bay-Flash-Briefing/dp/B07H6YYV23\">\u003ci>Alexa\u003c/i>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Go to resources:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#prevention\">How to spot and prevent a fentanyl overdose\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#help\">Where to find help for addiction in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em; float: left; line-height: 0.733em; padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0; font-family: times, serif, georgia;\">H\u003c/span>oward’s son loved everything about the natural world, but especially the Earth’s soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He grew vegetables in our backyard, experimented with different soils. That's what he was super passionate about,” said Howard, describing his 18-year-old son, who had been accepted to a California state university to study soil science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking out on the lush garden from the living room of his Silicon Valley home, Howard recounted why that never happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the teenager chose to defer for a semester, with the hope that in-person instruction would resume. During the wait, he went to stay with a friend in another state. Then, the day before Thanksgiving, Howard got a call from that friend’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were to go snowboarding,” Howard said. “They went to wake him and he had passed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard’s son died Nov. 25, 2020 from a single pill of what he thought was Percocet — a commonly prescribed painkiller that contains acetaminophen and the opioid medication oxycodone. A friend in Santa Clara County sent it to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A toxicology report later showed that the pill actually contained fentanyl, a synthetic opioid so strong that just 2 milligrams can kill a person in a matter of minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard, a technology company executive, spoke to KQED on the condition that we not use his full name or identify his son, in order to preserve the privacy of his younger child. He said he’s also concerned about protecting an ongoing criminal investigation into his son’s death, but agreed to an interview because he wants to warn other parents and teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn't know,” Howard said. “You read about fentanyl as if it's in some far-off place. ... It's not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teenager’s death was part of a dramatic rise in deadly, fentanyl-related overdoses in Santa Clara County during the pandemic, particularly among school-aged children and young adults. In 2020, the number of fentanyl deaths in the county more than doubled, and the victims were younger, on average, than in the previous two years, according to an analysis by KQED and the \u003ca href=\"https://documentingcovid19.io/home\">Documenting COVID-19 project\u003c/a> at Columbia University’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Documenting COVID-19 project and KQED obtained data from the county medical examiner that showed 11 people died from a fentanyl overdose in 2018. That number grew to 27 people in 2019 and then shot up to 73 people in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Total Number of Fentanyl-Related Overdoses By Year In 3 Counties \" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-n2ut2\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/n2ut2/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100%; border: none;\" height=\"438\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase mirrors a surge in drug overdoses in California and around the country during the pandemic. What’s notable about the victims in Santa Clara County is their youth. One was a 12-year-old girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to county data available so far, the median age of those that died from fentanyl overdoses last year is just 26 years old, though authorities have not yet completed investigations of every case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Median Age of People Who Died From Fentanyl Overdoses \" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-GHVSI\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/GHVSI/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100%; border: none;\" height=\"400\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, more than 20% more people died last year in Santa Clara County than in 2018 or 2019, according to the California Department of Public Health. The pandemic played a role but, strikingly, most of those deaths were not due to COVID-19. Of the 2,109 so-called excess deaths in the county, 932 have been attributed to the coronavirus, while more than half — 1,177 people — died from other causes, including drug overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though they died from too much fentanyl, many people, including Howard’s son, thought that they were taking far less potent drugs, according to county officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has led some families of the victims to say that “overdose” is the wrong word for what happened. Instead, they say their loved ones suffered poisoning, and their deaths should be prosecuted as such.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fentanyl Deaths Increased During Shelter in Place\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fentanyl fatalities in Santa Clara County had already started to increase in 2019, but county officials believe the pandemic accelerated that trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mira Parwiz Shamel, who directs addiction medical services for Santa Clara County, said the pandemic has increased younger people’s exposure to the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because the schools were closed, kids at home had more access to the internet,” Shamel said. “A lot of these drug deals are happening through social media sites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illicitly manufactured pills have been purchased on Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp, according to law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drugs cost as little as $20, roughly the price of a pizza — and just like a pizza are delivered to the home. “A cheap drug that gets you high very quickly is popular, however, unfortunately it's also very deadly in a small amount,” said Shamel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tragedy can happen fast: Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/fentanyl.html\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/M30-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11874736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/M30-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/M30-1.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/M30-1-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fentanyl can be found in pill form. Santa Clara County officials say that many people who die from fentanyl thought they were taking far less potent drugs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Santa Clara County)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Pandemic Thwarted Access to Addiction Treatment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The loss of access to treatment programs and other support for people addicted to opioids and other substances was another contributor to the increase in deaths. In Santa Clara County, and around the country, most of the patient therapy for people struggling with mental illness or addiction moved online last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic has been hard for all of us,” Shamel said. “But those who also experienced more loneliness and depression and job losses — all of that has played a role to bring this to a higher level than usual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Silicon Valley tech professional who lost a teenage son to drugs last year sees a direct line from the pandemic to his 17-year-old’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“COVID happened and it affected this whole globe,” said the father, who asked to be identified only by his middle name, Otto, and not to name his son, in order to protect the privacy of younger siblings and the ongoing criminal investigation. “It affected everyone on this planet, including him. I think it compounded his situation and I think that partially is to blame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otto described his son as a charismatic and gifted high school athlete who made friends easily. But he said that during the pandemic he felt the teenager had too much time on his hands. He changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there were pills that these kids got introduced to in parties and things like that. And I think he did start to develop issues in the last year,” Otto said, adding that by last June his son had become dependent on opioids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otto said he and his wife got their son into a 30-day inpatient treatment program for addiction, but he relapsed a few days after completing the program. The parents tried to send their son back, but the treatment center lacked the space to take him right away, and due to \u003cspan class=\"c-mrkdwn__highlight\">COVID-19\u003c/span>, local outpatient treatment options had an admission backlog of several weeks. As the family struggled to find another facility, their boy started disappearing for days at a time. When he returned home on July 22, he appeared stable to Otto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to him a couple of hours before, and he seemed to be sober,” the father said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Otto went to check on his son a couple of hours later, he found him dead in his bedroom. Otto said the memory of that moment haunts him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He took a pill that he assumed was a prescription pill or opioid,” Otto said. “It's very unlikely that he knew it contained fentanyl.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"arts_13893843,news_11837358,arts_13881725\" label=\"Find Help\"]Otto said that had he and his wife known about fentanyl poisoning they might have checked sooner or more often, or learned how to use naloxone, a drug that temporarily reverses an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days after his son’s death, staff from the drug treatment facility called to say they had a space available, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otto told KQED that he was reluctant to discuss his son’s struggles with addiction because that’s not how the family wants to remember him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's such a small part of his life and we think of all these other things and all the richness and the greatness that he had in his life,” Otto said. “That last year is not what defines him at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fentanyl Killing Across Bay Area Counties\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the 170% increase in fentanyl deaths in Santa Clara County in 2020 was the most dramatic increase, fentanyl deaths were also rising in other Bay Area counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, at least 396 people died from the opioid in 2020, which is nearly 68% more than in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actual number of deaths is likely much higher, per county officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, deaths rose 29% in 2020 to 62 people, according to data that the Documenting COVID-19 project and KQED obtained from county officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874732\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/2019-Charlie-Ternan-age-21-with-Mom-Mary-IMG_3389.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11874732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/2019-Charlie-Ternan-age-21-with-Mom-Mary-IMG_3389.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/2019-Charlie-Ternan-age-21-with-Mom-Mary-IMG_3389.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/2019-Charlie-Ternan-age-21-with-Mom-Mary-IMG_3389-160x213.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Ternan, with his mother when he was 21. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ternan Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the victims in each of those counties were older. Based on available data, the median age of people who died from fentanyl overdose in Alameda was 33.5 and in San Francisco was 43, compared to Santa Clara County where the median age was 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initial data from the three counties suggest that fentanyl deaths did not affect any one race or ethnicity disproportionately, but those county authorities are still completing death investigations for 2020, so the conclusions are preliminary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials say that fentanyl illegally manufactured in China and Mexico has flooded into the U.S. in recent years because it’s cheaper to produce and cannot be detected by sight or smell. Drug trafficking organizations initially used fentanyl to augment more expensive drugs, but now they are manufacturing pills that only contain fentanyl and disguising them as common prescription drugs like Percocet and Xanax, the brand name for the anti-anxiety drug alprazolam, which is also popular with teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hard to Prosecute\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office has created a special unit to combat the sale of illicitly manufactured opioids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Buckelew, a supervising deputy district attorney in the narcotics unit, said that the profile of fentanyl dealers in his county differs from dealers of methamphetamine, who are frequently users as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here, what we're seeing is young people aged 15 to 25, largely, they are the dealers,” Buckelew said. “They are not addicts. They are profiteering. They're selling small amounts to a lot of people and making money off of it.”\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=\"news_11771395,news_11766169\" label=\"Fentanyl\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office filed murder charges against one of those alleged dealers for selling fake pills that killed an 18-year-old woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grace Bhardwaj and her 17-year-old boyfriend had purchased what they thought were Percocet pills on Snapchat on April 5, according to the county's \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclaraca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/40174/95?npage=15&arch=1\">District Attorney’s Office.\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the couple got instead, officials said, are known on the street as M-30s, little blue pills with an M inside a box on one side and the number 30 printed on the other side, fake oxycodone tablets that were actually laced with fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking the drug that evening the boyfriend overdosed, paramedics were called to the scene and revived him using naloxone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhardwaj, though, was found dead later that night in an upper bedroom of the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged dealer, Anthony Minjares, 22, is in custody awaiting trial. If convicted, he faces 15 years to life imprisonment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murder charges against fentanyl dealers are rarely filed, though, according to Buckelew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s difficult to prove that the dealer knowingly or intentionally poisoned a buyer, Buckelew said, referring to the legal threshold for charging murder. “This case is different because the defendant knew of the deadly properties of fentanyl. He knew that his drugs contained fentanyl and he did not share that information with the purchaser.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California recently filed indictments against alleged members of drug trafficking organizations selling fentanyl out of San Mateo County to dealers all over the Bay Area. Similar indictments were filed against dealers in the East Bay and Monterey County.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Warning the Public\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the families interviewed for this story want changes in the law to strengthen prosecutors’ ability to put dealers in prison, they say the best way to prevent more deaths in the short term is to raise public awareness about the substances dealers are actually selling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're very good at pushing their products out in ways that make them look safe, with colorful menus and price lists,” said Ed Ternan, a financial adviser who worked in sales and marketing for most of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ternan said his son, Charlie, fell prey to that ruse, just three weeks before he was to graduate from Santa Clara University last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early months of the pandemic, the campus shut down, so Charlie sheltered at home with his parents in Pasadena, Ternan said, but the 22-year-old returned to Santa Clara in early May because he wanted to spend time with his friends before graduating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, on May 14, Ternan said, he learned that Charlie had died in his room at his fraternity house from fentanyl poisoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time the family was baffled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Charlie was happy, he was not suicidal, he was not depressed. He didn't have a substance-use disorder,” Ternan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Ternan and his wife met other families whose children had died after trying drugs for the first time or using them occasionally, they saw a pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are kids who are experimenting. They're not addicted yet,” said Ternan. “In the old days, you would experiment and you drink too much tequila and you'd say, ‘I'll never drink that much tequila again because I got really sick and hung over. I learned my lesson.’ These days, if you experiment with what you think are prescription pills, you don't get to learn a lesson. You die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ternan and his wife, Mary, formed a nonprofit organization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.songforcharlie.org/\">Song for Charlie\u003c/a>, to get the word out to parents like themselves who had no idea that poison is being marketed and sold in the guise of prescription medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ternan said parents need to recognize that their children’s generation grew up experimenting with prescription medications and that it’s common for friends to share them. They say parents should tell their kids: \"All these pills are likely fake. They're made with a deadly, powerful synthetic, and you need to tell all your friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Seek Treatment Early\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The fact that fentanyl is so widespread and so lethal makes it more urgent to intervene swiftly when someone is struggling with addiction, family members say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robin Dosskey told the story of her son Kyle, 38, who had recently lost his job at a law firm and was struggling to find treatment for his heroin addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dosskey said she had finally found Kyle a spot in a medication-assisted recovery program, but on Nov. 18, 2019 — the night before they were going to sign him up — he took heroin he did not know was laced with fentanyl in her Mountain View home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48992_002_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48992_002_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48992_002_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48992_002_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48992_002_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48992_002_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48992_002_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin Dosskey holds a hat that belonged to her son Kyle while surrounded by his photos at her home in Mountain View on May 12, 2021. Kyle died in 2019 due to a fatal dose of fentanyl. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kyle’s death was one of a cluster of fentanyl deaths Santa Clara County officials warned about in late 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dosskey said the toxicity of fentanyl means people like Kyle are dying before they can conquer addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He struggled with this addiction problem for a long time, whether it was alcohol or opioids. It is not something he was lazy about,” Dosskey said. “I want people to know it can happen to anyone's child — I don't care about their race, their gender, their economic status. It happens and it begins in high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dosskey, who is a retired teacher, wishes she had done more, early on, to help her son. And she wishes she had known more about where to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that happens is that you try to hide it and cover it up so that you take care of it yourself. Well, that doesn't work,” said Dosskey. “It's going to take a whole team of people to help a child that needs treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s part of a new support group in Santa Clara County called Moms Alliance that will help defendants referred from the drug courts and their families get connected with therapy and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Post-Pandemic Hopes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The opioid crisis began well before the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s not going away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard and Otto, who met in a support group for bereaved families, say they hope that as COVID-19 vaccination rates rise and coronavirus deaths decrease more resources can be focused on the fentanyl crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the attention, of course, globally has been on the COVID pandemic,” said Otto, “while at the same time there is this silent killer that people haven't really necessarily known about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's hard to get resources and attention when there's clearly another, you know, raging epidemic globally,” Howard said. “I do hope with this (Biden) administration that we see a renewed focus on this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>FAQs About Fentanyl Addiction\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"prevention\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>How Can Overdoses Be Prevented?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SCCOverdosePrevention/\">prevent\u003c/a> a fatal opioid overdose using a drug called \u003ca href=\"https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/naloxone\">naloxone\u003c/a> (also known by the brand name Narcan), which temporarily “attaches to opioid receptors and reverses and blocks the effects of other opioids.” According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nih.gov/\">National Institutes of Health\u003c/a>, naloxone does not cause any serious side effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can get free \u003ca href=\"https://bhsd.sccgov.org/information-resources/opioid-overdose-prevention-project/rescue-and-training\">naloxone/Narcan training and kits\u003c/a> from Santa Clara County clinics, and staff will train you how to use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the Drug Overdose Prevention and Education Project trains people how to recognize signs of an overdose, and refers people to the CVS pharmacy in downtown San Francisco for free naloxone kits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pharmacists are permitted to prescribe naloxone to you without a doctor’s prescription. Contact your local pharmacy to confirm if they have naloxone available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Are Common Signs of an Overdose?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone may be overdosing if they are groggy, lethargic or barely able to stand. The pupils in the person’s eyes may be constricted to the smallest point. These “pinpoint pupils” will not expand when exposed to light. The person’s breathing may become slow, become irregular or even stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"help\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Where Can a Person Get Help With Addiction in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bhsd.sccgov.org/information-resources/substance-use-resources-information\">Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services\u003c/a> treats people struggling with stress and substance use issues, including fentanyl use, through a program called \u003ca href=\"https://bhsd.sccgov.org/get-help\">Gateway\u003c/a>. 1-800-488-9919\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth Substance Use Treatment \u003ca href=\"https://bhsd.sccgov.org/information-resources/youth-substance-use-treatment-services\">Services\u003c/a> within Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services provides medication-assisted treatment, case management, confidential counseling and mentoring. 408-272-6518 (Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Suicide and Crisis Hotline at 1-855-278-4204 is open 24 hours a day/seven days a week. You can also text the word \"renew\" to 741741 (24 hours per day/seven days per week).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental Health Services can be accessed by calling 1-800-704-0900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://sf-goso.org/health-treatment/health-care/san-francisco-behavioral-health-access-center-bhac-health-treatment/\">\u003cb>San Francisco County \u003c/b>offers behavioral health care\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/comupg/oservices/mentalHlth/SubstanceAbuse/default.asp\">services for addiction and substance abuse treatment\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.acbhcs.org/substance-use-treatment/\">\u003cb>Alameda County \u003c/b>offers similar services \u003c/a>\u003cb> \u003c/b>to people struggling with addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don't have to have an overdose to get \u003cb>medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction\u003c/b>. Emergency medicine doctors can prescribe FDA-approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-drug-class/information-about-medication-assisted-treatment-mat\">drugs that treat opioid dependence \u003c/a>and arrange for the patient to follow up with an outpatient center. \u003cb>Santa Clara County clinics and hospitals \u003c/b>also have these medical treatments available and coordinate outpatient care. You or your loved ones can begin treatment while in county jail and receive outpatient care upon release.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>How We Did It\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For more than a year, reporters from KQED and the Documenting COVID-19 project at Columbia University's Brown Institute for Media Innovation have been requesting and analyzing mortality data from Bay Area counties to better understand who has died, and why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our analysis revealed a 2020 spike in deaths across these counties that could not be explained by COVID-19 alone. We found an increase in deaths from natural causes, such as Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and hypertension. But we also found an increase in drug overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For this report, we requested death records through the state’s Public Records Act and analyzed the local mortality data from the Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner, the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the Alameda County Sheriff's Office Coroner’s Bureau for 2018, 2019 and 2020. These records include only deaths that were deemed “unnatural” — sudden, unexpected, violent or from contagious diseases, including COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We compared the counties’ death records and data with statewide data collected and released by the California Department of Public Health, and cross referenced our data with an analysis of California Health and Human Services’ \u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/statewide-death-profiles/resource/f8bb67bf-923d-4d74-8714-dc2bcf5609b7\">death \u003c/a>statistics for 2018, 2019 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We focused our analysis on Santa Clara County because the data revealed a striking rise in deaths from fentanyl poisoning both in 2019 and, even more sharply, in 2020, and the age of the victims trended notably younger — the youngest among them a 12-year-old girl — indicating that the trend was not necessarily born of the pandemic, but might have been exacerbated by it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, county medical examiner and coroner’s offices are responsible for investigating all sudden, violent and unnatural deaths, such as accidents including overdose, suicides and homicides. Thousands more deaths that occurred at home are not part of this data set, but those deaths are represented in state data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While reporting on infectious disease deaths is normally considered the purview of the medical examiner or coroner, most counties in California assigned the tracking and reporting of COVID-19-related deaths to local health departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11874753/\">learn more about our analysis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kyra Senese and Eric Fan of the \u003ca href=\"https://documentingcovid19.io/home\">Documenting COVID-19 project\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, more than 20% more people died last year in Santa Clara County than in 2018 or 2019, according to the California Department of Public Health. The pandemic played a role but, strikingly, most of those deaths were not due to COVID-19. Of the 2,109 so-called excess deaths in the county, 932 have been attributed to the coronavirus, while more than half — 1,177 people — died from other causes, including drug overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though they died from too much fentanyl, many people, including Howard’s son, thought that they were taking far less potent drugs, according to county officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has led some families of the victims to say that “overdose” is the wrong word for what happened. Instead, they say their loved ones suffered poisoning, and their deaths should be prosecuted as such.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fentanyl Deaths Increased During Shelter in Place\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fentanyl fatalities in Santa Clara County had already started to increase in 2019, but county officials believe the pandemic accelerated that trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mira Parwiz Shamel, who directs addiction medical services for Santa Clara County, said the pandemic has increased younger people’s exposure to the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because the schools were closed, kids at home had more access to the internet,” Shamel said. “A lot of these drug deals are happening through social media sites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illicitly manufactured pills have been purchased on Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp, according to law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drugs cost as little as $20, roughly the price of a pizza — and just like a pizza are delivered to the home. “A cheap drug that gets you high very quickly is popular, however, unfortunately it's also very deadly in a small amount,” said Shamel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tragedy can happen fast: Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/fentanyl.html\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/M30-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11874736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/M30-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/M30-1.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/M30-1-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fentanyl can be found in pill form. 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In Santa Clara County, and around the country, most of the patient therapy for people struggling with mental illness or addiction moved online last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic has been hard for all of us,” Shamel said. “But those who also experienced more loneliness and depression and job losses — all of that has played a role to bring this to a higher level than usual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Silicon Valley tech professional who lost a teenage son to drugs last year sees a direct line from the pandemic to his 17-year-old’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“COVID happened and it affected this whole globe,” said the father, who asked to be identified only by his middle name, Otto, and not to name his son, in order to protect the privacy of younger siblings and the ongoing criminal investigation. “It affected everyone on this planet, including him. I think it compounded his situation and I think that partially is to blame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otto described his son as a charismatic and gifted high school athlete who made friends easily. But he said that during the pandemic he felt the teenager had too much time on his hands. He changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there were pills that these kids got introduced to in parties and things like that. And I think he did start to develop issues in the last year,” Otto said, adding that by last June his son had become dependent on opioids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otto said he and his wife got their son into a 30-day inpatient treatment program for addiction, but he relapsed a few days after completing the program. The parents tried to send their son back, but the treatment center lacked the space to take him right away, and due to \u003cspan class=\"c-mrkdwn__highlight\">COVID-19\u003c/span>, local outpatient treatment options had an admission backlog of several weeks. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office filed murder charges against one of those alleged dealers for selling fake pills that killed an 18-year-old woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grace Bhardwaj and her 17-year-old boyfriend had purchased what they thought were Percocet pills on Snapchat on April 5, according to the county's \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclaraca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/40174/95?npage=15&arch=1\">District Attorney’s Office.\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the couple got instead, officials said, are known on the street as M-30s, little blue pills with an M inside a box on one side and the number 30 printed on the other side, fake oxycodone tablets that were actually laced with fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking the drug that evening the boyfriend overdosed, paramedics were called to the scene and revived him using naloxone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhardwaj, though, was found dead later that night in an upper bedroom of the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged dealer, Anthony Minjares, 22, is in custody awaiting trial. If convicted, he faces 15 years to life imprisonment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murder charges against fentanyl dealers are rarely filed, though, according to Buckelew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s difficult to prove that the dealer knowingly or intentionally poisoned a buyer, Buckelew said, referring to the legal threshold for charging murder. “This case is different because the defendant knew of the deadly properties of fentanyl. He knew that his drugs contained fentanyl and he did not share that information with the purchaser.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California recently filed indictments against alleged members of drug trafficking organizations selling fentanyl out of San Mateo County to dealers all over the Bay Area. Similar indictments were filed against dealers in the East Bay and Monterey County.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Warning the Public\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the families interviewed for this story want changes in the law to strengthen prosecutors’ ability to put dealers in prison, they say the best way to prevent more deaths in the short term is to raise public awareness about the substances dealers are actually selling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're very good at pushing their products out in ways that make them look safe, with colorful menus and price lists,” said Ed Ternan, a financial adviser who worked in sales and marketing for most of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ternan said his son, Charlie, fell prey to that ruse, just three weeks before he was to graduate from Santa Clara University last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early months of the pandemic, the campus shut down, so Charlie sheltered at home with his parents in Pasadena, Ternan said, but the 22-year-old returned to Santa Clara in early May because he wanted to spend time with his friends before graduating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, on May 14, Ternan said, he learned that Charlie had died in his room at his fraternity house from fentanyl poisoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time the family was baffled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Charlie was happy, he was not suicidal, he was not depressed. He didn't have a substance-use disorder,” Ternan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Ternan and his wife met other families whose children had died after trying drugs for the first time or using them occasionally, they saw a pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are kids who are experimenting. They're not addicted yet,” said Ternan. “In the old days, you would experiment and you drink too much tequila and you'd say, ‘I'll never drink that much tequila again because I got really sick and hung over. I learned my lesson.’ These days, if you experiment with what you think are prescription pills, you don't get to learn a lesson. You die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ternan and his wife, Mary, formed a nonprofit organization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.songforcharlie.org/\">Song for Charlie\u003c/a>, to get the word out to parents like themselves who had no idea that poison is being marketed and sold in the guise of prescription medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ternan said parents need to recognize that their children’s generation grew up experimenting with prescription medications and that it’s common for friends to share them. They say parents should tell their kids: \"All these pills are likely fake. They're made with a deadly, powerful synthetic, and you need to tell all your friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Seek Treatment Early\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The fact that fentanyl is so widespread and so lethal makes it more urgent to intervene swiftly when someone is struggling with addiction, family members say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robin Dosskey told the story of her son Kyle, 38, who had recently lost his job at a law firm and was struggling to find treatment for his heroin addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dosskey said she had finally found Kyle a spot in a medication-assisted recovery program, but on Nov. 18, 2019 — the night before they were going to sign him up — he took heroin he did not know was laced with fentanyl in her Mountain View home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48992_002_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48992_002_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48992_002_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48992_002_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48992_002_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48992_002_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48992_002_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin Dosskey holds a hat that belonged to her son Kyle while surrounded by his photos at her home in Mountain View on May 12, 2021. Kyle died in 2019 due to a fatal dose of fentanyl. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kyle’s death was one of a cluster of fentanyl deaths Santa Clara County officials warned about in late 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dosskey said the toxicity of fentanyl means people like Kyle are dying before they can conquer addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He struggled with this addiction problem for a long time, whether it was alcohol or opioids. It is not something he was lazy about,” Dosskey said. “I want people to know it can happen to anyone's child — I don't care about their race, their gender, their economic status. It happens and it begins in high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dosskey, who is a retired teacher, wishes she had done more, early on, to help her son. And she wishes she had known more about where to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that happens is that you try to hide it and cover it up so that you take care of it yourself. Well, that doesn't work,” said Dosskey. “It's going to take a whole team of people to help a child that needs treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s part of a new support group in Santa Clara County called Moms Alliance that will help defendants referred from the drug courts and their families get connected with therapy and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Post-Pandemic Hopes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The opioid crisis began well before the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s not going away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard and Otto, who met in a support group for bereaved families, say they hope that as COVID-19 vaccination rates rise and coronavirus deaths decrease more resources can be focused on the fentanyl crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the attention, of course, globally has been on the COVID pandemic,” said Otto, “while at the same time there is this silent killer that people haven't really necessarily known about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's hard to get resources and attention when there's clearly another, you know, raging epidemic globally,” Howard said. “I do hope with this (Biden) administration that we see a renewed focus on this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>FAQs About Fentanyl Addiction\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"prevention\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>How Can Overdoses Be Prevented?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SCCOverdosePrevention/\">prevent\u003c/a> a fatal opioid overdose using a drug called \u003ca href=\"https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/naloxone\">naloxone\u003c/a> (also known by the brand name Narcan), which temporarily “attaches to opioid receptors and reverses and blocks the effects of other opioids.” According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nih.gov/\">National Institutes of Health\u003c/a>, naloxone does not cause any serious side effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can get free \u003ca href=\"https://bhsd.sccgov.org/information-resources/opioid-overdose-prevention-project/rescue-and-training\">naloxone/Narcan training and kits\u003c/a> from Santa Clara County clinics, and staff will train you how to use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the Drug Overdose Prevention and Education Project trains people how to recognize signs of an overdose, and refers people to the CVS pharmacy in downtown San Francisco for free naloxone kits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pharmacists are permitted to prescribe naloxone to you without a doctor’s prescription. Contact your local pharmacy to confirm if they have naloxone available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Are Common Signs of an Overdose?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone may be overdosing if they are groggy, lethargic or barely able to stand. The pupils in the person’s eyes may be constricted to the smallest point. These “pinpoint pupils” will not expand when exposed to light. The person’s breathing may become slow, become irregular or even stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"help\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Where Can a Person Get Help With Addiction in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bhsd.sccgov.org/information-resources/substance-use-resources-information\">Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services\u003c/a> treats people struggling with stress and substance use issues, including fentanyl use, through a program called \u003ca href=\"https://bhsd.sccgov.org/get-help\">Gateway\u003c/a>. 1-800-488-9919\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth Substance Use Treatment \u003ca href=\"https://bhsd.sccgov.org/information-resources/youth-substance-use-treatment-services\">Services\u003c/a> within Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services provides medication-assisted treatment, case management, confidential counseling and mentoring. 408-272-6518 (Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Suicide and Crisis Hotline at 1-855-278-4204 is open 24 hours a day/seven days a week. You can also text the word \"renew\" to 741741 (24 hours per day/seven days per week).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental Health Services can be accessed by calling 1-800-704-0900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://sf-goso.org/health-treatment/health-care/san-francisco-behavioral-health-access-center-bhac-health-treatment/\">\u003cb>San Francisco County \u003c/b>offers behavioral health care\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/comupg/oservices/mentalHlth/SubstanceAbuse/default.asp\">services for addiction and substance abuse treatment\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.acbhcs.org/substance-use-treatment/\">\u003cb>Alameda County \u003c/b>offers similar services \u003c/a>\u003cb> \u003c/b>to people struggling with addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don't have to have an overdose to get \u003cb>medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction\u003c/b>. Emergency medicine doctors can prescribe FDA-approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-drug-class/information-about-medication-assisted-treatment-mat\">drugs that treat opioid dependence \u003c/a>and arrange for the patient to follow up with an outpatient center. \u003cb>Santa Clara County clinics and hospitals \u003c/b>also have these medical treatments available and coordinate outpatient care. You or your loved ones can begin treatment while in county jail and receive outpatient care upon release.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>How We Did It\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For more than a year, reporters from KQED and the Documenting COVID-19 project at Columbia University's Brown Institute for Media Innovation have been requesting and analyzing mortality data from Bay Area counties to better understand who has died, and why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our analysis revealed a 2020 spike in deaths across these counties that could not be explained by COVID-19 alone. 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These records include only deaths that were deemed “unnatural” — sudden, unexpected, violent or from contagious diseases, including COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We compared the counties’ death records and data with statewide data collected and released by the California Department of Public Health, and cross referenced our data with an analysis of California Health and Human Services’ \u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/statewide-death-profiles/resource/f8bb67bf-923d-4d74-8714-dc2bcf5609b7\">death \u003c/a>statistics for 2018, 2019 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We focused our analysis on Santa Clara County because the data revealed a striking rise in deaths from fentanyl poisoning both in 2019 and, even more sharply, in 2020, and the age of the victims trended notably younger — the youngest among them a 12-year-old girl — indicating that the trend was not necessarily born of the pandemic, but might have been exacerbated by it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, county medical examiner and coroner’s offices are responsible for investigating all sudden, violent and unnatural deaths, such as accidents including overdose, suicides and homicides. 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