A synthetic opiate called fentanyl is behind a surge of drug overdoses in Alaska. As a result, overdoses in the state have become so deadly that one of the tools used to fight them has changed.
“From a public health perspective, this is unprecedented. And the state of Alaska and health officials, we are very concerned,” she said.seized twice as many grams of fentanyl in the first three months of this year than it did in all of 2021And, to be clear, the shortage was just of that free naloxone through Project HOPE. People could still get the drug with a prescription.
Dolores Van Bourgondien, a nurse at an addiction treatment clinic in Juneau, traced the explosion of fentanyl in Alaska back to about a year ago. Over the course of two weeks last April, the number of her patients with fentanyl in their urine went from 2% to nearly 14%. She said now it’s more than half.
“What we’re seeing on the street, what we’re seeing in our toxicology, what we’re hearing from our patients, okay, preempts anything that comes out kind of publicly,” she said.across the state help slow deaths down, but the pace is relentless. “I think everybody’s who’s involved in this, we — you just feel as if you’re paddling upstream, you’re not making any headway,” she said.
Naloxone is only a short-term fix to the most acute symptom of addiction. It gives people like Van Bourgondien time to connect people who use drugs to the other resources they need for long term recovery — things like treatment, housing and access to mental health care.I believe every Alaskan has a right to timely information about their health and health systems, and their natural environment and its management.
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