WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:03:00.8240000" NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.591 Last year, a record 93,000 people in NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:03.591 --> 00:00:06.967 the US overdosed on drugs and died. NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:06.970 --> 00:00:08.754 The CDC on Wednesday NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:08.754 --> 00:00:10.538 shared the grim statistic. NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:10.540 --> 00:00:12.780 It represents a nearly 30% NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:12.780 --> 00:00:14.564 increase in overdose deaths NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:14.564 --> 00:00:16.794 nationwide from the year before. NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:18.588 That's the biggest single NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:18.590 --> 00:00:20.830 year increase ever in Oregon. NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:20.830 --> 00:00:23.954 Preliminary data show that 30% rise came NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:23.954 --> 00:00:26.636 from 799 overdose deaths in Washington. NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:28.604 They suffered a 37% NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:28.604 --> 00:00:30.568 increase with 17124 deaths. NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:30.570 --> 00:00:32.050 Another upsetting trend record NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:32.050 --> 00:00:33.900 high deaths involving opioids that NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:33.900 --> 00:00:35.319 includes heroin and fentanyl, NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.005 a synthetic opioid often found NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:37.005 --> 00:00:39.939 in pill form and up to 100 times NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:39.939 --> 00:00:41.515 more powerful than morphine. NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:43.096 Narcotics agencies say counterfeit NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:43.096 --> 00:00:45.066 fentanyl pills are now mass NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:45.066 --> 00:00:46.627 produced on the black market. NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:46.630 --> 00:00:48.460 The Russian roulette of drugs. NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:48.460 --> 00:00:50.280 You never know what what, NOTE Confidence: 0.9890622 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:50.650 which NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:00:50.650 --> 00:00:52.828 pills going to have a deadly NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:00:52.828 --> 00:00:54.709 dose versus those that they NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:00:54.709 --> 00:00:56.850 don't have a deadly dose. Chris NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:00:56.850 --> 00:00:59.447 Gibson is executive director for the Oregon NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:00:59.447 --> 00:01:01.609 Idaho High Intensity drug trafficking. NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:01.610 --> 00:01:04.578 The program, he says the amount of NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:04.578 --> 00:01:06.720 fentanyl law enforcement is seizing, NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:06.720 --> 00:01:09.366 shows an exponential rise in black NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:09.366 --> 00:01:11.410 market production outside the US. NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:11.410 --> 00:01:13.540 Take a look in 2018, NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:13.540 --> 00:01:15.670 police seized 690 fentanyl pills. NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:15.670 --> 00:01:19.078 The next year. That number rose to 100. NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:19.080 --> 00:01:21.630 Two 1600 pills. Then, in 2020, NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:21.630 --> 00:01:24.605 they seized more than 734 thousand pills. NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:24.610 --> 00:01:26.740 But what about the drugs? NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:26.740 --> 00:01:29.380 They aren't seizing preliminary data from NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:29.380 --> 00:01:31.969 the Oregon Health Authority show opioid. NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:31.970 --> 00:01:33.925 Related deaths in Oregon increased NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:33.925 --> 00:01:36.162 by 40% from 2019 to 2020. NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:36.162 --> 00:01:39.249 You can see the biggest difference in May NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:39.249 --> 00:01:41.763 during peak pandemic restrictions in 2020, NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:41.770 --> 00:01:44.470 sixty three people overdosed on opioids NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:44.470 --> 00:01:47.648 that month compared to 15 in May of 2019, NOTE Confidence: 0.98858684 00:01:47.650 --> 00:01:49.610 when we're looking at the NOTE Confidence: 0.9900508 00:01:49.610 --> 00:01:51.986 COVID pandemic and all those factors NOTE Confidence: 0.9900508 00:01:51.986 --> 00:01:54.309 coming together at the same time, NOTE Confidence: 0.9900508 00:01:54.310 --> 00:01:56.662 I think maybe something close to NOTE Confidence: 0.9900508 00:01:56.662 --> 00:01:59.860 a perfect storm, but we need to be NOTE Confidence: 0.9900508 00:01:59.860 --> 00:02:02.240 working hand in hand between in. NOTE Confidence: 0.9900508 00:02:02.240 --> 00:02:04.730 The enforcement side for supply reduction, NOTE Confidence: 0.9900508 00:02:04.730 --> 00:02:07.390 but we also definitely need to be NOTE Confidence: 0.9900508 00:02:07.390 --> 00:02:09.300 working together with treatment, NOTE Confidence: 0.9900508 00:02:09.300 --> 00:02:10.130 harm reduction NOTE Confidence: 0.98695487 00:02:10.130 --> 00:02:11.369 and prevention. Tragic NOTE Confidence: 0.98695487 00:02:11.370 --> 00:02:13.782 Doctor Amanda Risser is senior medical NOTE Confidence: 0.98695487 00:02:13.782 --> 00:02:15.877 director of substance abuse disorder NOTE Confidence: 0.98695487 00:02:15.877 --> 00:02:18.007 services at Central City Concern, NOTE Confidence: 0.98695487 00:02:18.010 --> 00:02:20.090 an organization that serves Portland NOTE Confidence: 0.9871110405 00:02:20.090 --> 00:02:20.942 Houseless community. NOTE Confidence: 0.9871110405 00:02:20.942 --> 00:02:23.498 It's very sad you know these NOTE Confidence: 0.9871110405 00:02:23.498 --> 00:02:25.782 are people I know and really NOTE Confidence: 0.9871110405 00:02:25.782 --> 00:02:27.822 care about who are dying from. NOTE Confidence: 0.9871110405 00:02:27.830 --> 00:02:28.880 Overdose deaths. Well, NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:28.880 --> 00:02:30.272 not everyone struggling with NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:30.272 --> 00:02:31.664 drug addiction is houseless. NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:31.670 --> 00:02:33.758 Risser says it's a common struggle NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:33.758 --> 00:02:35.482 among her patients, she says. NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:35.482 --> 00:02:37.162 Most people who die from NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:37.162 --> 00:02:38.650 overdoses do so alone, NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:38.650 --> 00:02:40.400 even more so last year, NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:42.140 and given the dangerous and NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:42.140 --> 00:02:43.886 unpredictable drug supply, she says, NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:43.886 --> 00:02:45.974 it's critical to address this epidemic. NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:45.980 --> 00:02:48.764 I think just really being aware that there's NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:48.770 --> 00:02:50.580 not enough treatment and that NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:50.580 --> 00:02:52.390 these last couple of years. NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:52.390 --> 00:02:53.986 It's been really hard for folks in NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:53.986 --> 00:02:55.362 our community who are struggling NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:55.362 --> 00:02:56.650 with substance use disorders. NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:56.650 --> 00:02:58.618 A lot of our systems that keep people NOTE Confidence: 0.9871386 00:02:58.618 --> 00:03:00.820 safe and supported or are falling apart.