Drug counselor Kevin Dahlgren discusses the 'madness' as the fentanyl crisis causes mass public transportation delays and homeless activists employ new tactics.
"It's a terrible feeling," King County Metro driver Stevon Williams told"Fox & Friends First" earlier this month."I'm responsible for those passengers and, sometimes, there are kids on the bus. We have a school contract, so we have all children on these buses going back and forth to school during the daytime, but at nighttime it's dangerous."
"It [the fentanyl smoke] makes me dizzy, it makes my vision blurred, and the smell is terrible, and I immediately get overwhelming migraine headaches that today I still have constantly." Data from the Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division recorded 472 opioid deaths in 2020, 745 in 2021 and at least 391 in 2022, although last year's numbers are still incomplete.
Activists in Portland are pushing back against the city's efforts to clean up the streets, particularly whereare located, by tagging belongings including needles as"not trash," Dahlgren said. "What's frustrating for us is nine times out of 10, the very homeless that used to live there are the ones helping us pick up the trash because we involve them. So we're not throwing away anybody's belongings," he explained.
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