Priorities include increasing access to treatment and saving lives using harm induction.
SEATTLE — King County officials including Executive Dow Constantine laid out a number of priorities Monday for combatting the impacts of fentanyl and reversing a trend of increasing overdoses.
The strategy aims to increase access to treatment, facilitate the creation of more behavioral health beds, distribute more overdose reversal medication and fentanyl test stripes, build a behavioral health workforce and advocate for better wages within it, and address the disproportionate impact of fentanyl on underserved populations. Funding will come from existing resources.
“King County is taking action,” Constantine said in a news
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