(Via U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency)
Quick Take
Lookout’s ongoing coverage of the toll of fentanyl and other opioids on Santa Cruz County, including efforts to end the stigma around addiction and to make overdose-reversal medications like Narcan more widely available in the community.
The opioid crisis in Santa Cruz County
There are 24 stories.
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Nearly 100 community members and service providers came to Watsonville Community Hospital on Thursday afternoon for an...
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2
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As Santa Cruz County awaits about $26 million in funds stemming from national lawsuits against pharmacies, drug...
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3
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The first installment of the more than $26 million Santa Cruz County is due from a national settlement is in the...
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4
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Dr. Gail Newel made her final public appearance as Santa Cruz’s County health officer Thursday evening at a virtual...
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5
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Santa Cruz County recorded 101 opioid overdoses in May, spiking above the monthly average of 70 to 80 for the previous...
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6
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California officials are stepping up efforts to combat the spread of xylazine, a powerful animal sedative that’s...
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7
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A new opioid overdose-reversing drug called Opvee is expected to be available over the counter later this year. Santa...
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8
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“There is absolutely a risk that is lessened by having Narcan,” one student told Lookout at a drive-thru Narcan...
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9
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The Santa Cruz Surgery Center is partnering with the Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County and the...
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10
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Newsom’s education spending plan includes the opioid antagonist naloxone for all middle and high schools while largely...
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11
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The SafeRx project aims to distribute Narcan to six local bars, three in North County and three in South County. The...
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12
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As the national fentanyl crisis continues to reverberate in Santa Cruz County at record rates, killing 42 people in 2021...
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13
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A survey conducted among high school youth in Watsonville earlier this year suggests that a growing number of kids are...
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14
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Xaloc Cabanes has survived a lot — and applied it, heading Santa Cruz County’s mental health advisory board. His “lived...
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15
Quick Take
There was a time in the not-so-distant past when a proudly miscreant tone and attitude dominated Santa Cruz surf...
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16
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Music festival promoters are allowing distribution of overdose reversal medication as fentanyl deaths continue to surge....
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17
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For three decades, a single-story house — the state’s first bilingual recovery program of its kind — that sits on a...
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18
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The death of a 15-year-old girl on campus at Hollywood’s Bernstein High School several weeks ago, and the prevalence of...
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19
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If it can happen to Santa Cruz County Public Health Officer Gail Newel and her wife, Kelli, both longtime physicians,...
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20
Quick Take
A crowd of 175 heard and talked with a panel of local experts about the fentanyl plague that is increasingly targeting...
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21
Quick Take
The stories of loss from mothers Sophie Veniel and Carrie Luther inform a much larger picture of fatal fentanyl...
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22
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Based on the county coroner’s data from May 2021, fatal overdoses from fentanyl nearly quadrupled from five in 2019 to...
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23
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The Harm Reduction Coalition — which has officially partnered with Santa Cruz County’s Health Services Agency for two...
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24
Quick Take
Sam Quinones, author of ‘The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth,’ on the...
Quick Take
Lookout’s ongoing coverage of the toll of fentanyl and other opioids on Santa Cruz County, including efforts to end the stigma around addiction and to make overdose-reversal medications like Narcan more widely available in the community.
There are 24 stories.
-
1
Quick Take
Nearly 100 community members and service providers came to Watsonville Community Hospital on Thursday afternoon for an...
-
2
Quick Take
As Santa Cruz County awaits about $26 million in funds stemming from national lawsuits against pharmacies, drug...
-
3
Quick Take
The first installment of the more than $26 million Santa Cruz County is due from a national settlement is in the...
-
4
Quick Take
Dr. Gail Newel made her final public appearance as Santa Cruz’s County health officer Thursday evening at a virtual...
-
5
Quick Take
Santa Cruz County recorded 101 opioid overdoses in May, spiking above the monthly average of 70 to 80 for the previous...
-
6
Quick Take
California officials are stepping up efforts to combat the spread of xylazine, a powerful animal sedative that’s...
-
7
Quick Take
A new opioid overdose-reversing drug called Opvee is expected to be available over the counter later this year. Santa...
-
8
Quick Take
“There is absolutely a risk that is lessened by having Narcan,” one student told Lookout at a drive-thru Narcan...
-
9
Quick Take
The Santa Cruz Surgery Center is partnering with the Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County and the...
-
10
Quick Take
Newsom’s education spending plan includes the opioid antagonist naloxone for all middle and high schools while largely...
-
11
Quick Take
The SafeRx project aims to distribute Narcan to six local bars, three in North County and three in South County. The...
-
12
Quick Take
As the national fentanyl crisis continues to reverberate in Santa Cruz County at record rates, killing 42 people in 2021...
-
13
Quick Take
A survey conducted among high school youth in Watsonville earlier this year suggests that a growing number of kids are...
-
14
Quick Take
Xaloc Cabanes has survived a lot — and applied it, heading Santa Cruz County’s mental health advisory board. His “lived...
-
15
Quick Take
There was a time in the not-so-distant past when a proudly miscreant tone and attitude dominated Santa Cruz surf...
-
16
Quick Take
Music festival promoters are allowing distribution of overdose reversal medication as fentanyl deaths continue to surge....
-
17
Quick Take
For three decades, a single-story house — the state’s first bilingual recovery program of its kind — that sits on a...
-
18
Quick Take
The death of a 15-year-old girl on campus at Hollywood’s Bernstein High School several weeks ago, and the prevalence of...
-
19
Quick Take
If it can happen to Santa Cruz County Public Health Officer Gail Newel and her wife, Kelli, both longtime physicians,...
-
20
Quick Take
A crowd of 175 heard and talked with a panel of local experts about the fentanyl plague that is increasingly targeting...
-
21
Quick Take
The stories of loss from mothers Sophie Veniel and Carrie Luther inform a much larger picture of fatal fentanyl...
-
22
Quick Take
Based on the county coroner’s data from May 2021, fatal overdoses from fentanyl nearly quadrupled from five in 2019 to...
-
23
Quick Take
The Harm Reduction Coalition — which has officially partnered with Santa Cruz County’s Health Services Agency for two...
-
24
Quick Take
Sam Quinones, author of ‘The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth,’ on the...