As fentanyl crisis continues, libraries host lifesaving workshops

Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, who sits on the county’s Library District Board and chairs the Health and Hospital Committee, said that in other parts of the country the epidemic has been devastating. One Pennsylvania small town’s mayor told Simitian in 2017 that fentanyl overdoses were so frequent that health leaders were concerned they were going to run out of Narcan, the medication that prevents deaths. At the time, there were few cases in California.