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Fentanyl crisis claims local lives
Guadalupe County fights back with large Narcan donation Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Guadalupe County) – Three suspected overdose deaths within less than a week in Guadalupe County have prompted some assistance from the outside. More importantly, it signals a warning to the community about the illicit drug fentanyl and the potential for even more deaths. Lt. John Flores of the Guadalupe County Sheriff ’s Narcotics Task Force says the deaths of these three individuals throughout the Fourth of July holiday are believed to involve fentanyl, which for the last several years has already triggered a growing number of deaths across the country. Flores says the fact that investigators believe all three
incidents are not related makes the warning even more critical for the community to protect itself. “I think Sheriff Zwicke said it best is we were able to determine that none of these were connected. So, in a case that we could say all three of these are connected, then we know that there is something bad in one area hitting our community. The problem that we were able to really quickly determine in this investigation is these are three different sources of fentanyl and not just one source that put out one dose or three pills that were bad. These are three separate sources that put out these pills and there can be 90, 120 or 300 pills out there versus just a guy that had
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just 30 pills. That is what is scary,” said Flores. Meanwhile, news about these overdose deaths has already resulted in a large donation of Narcan. Narcan, also known as Naloxone, is a medication used to reverse opioid overdoses. Flores says the donation was dropped off to the Guadalupe County Sheriff ’s Office by Clyde Keebaugh, a clinic administrator with The Center for Health Care Services in San Antonio. “He called me and saw the media coverage and said they distribute Narcan, Naloxone, to law enforcement agencies and I think they may even distribute to individuals for use -Fentanyl, pg. 3