State Representative Tom Dent, R-Moses Lake, said the Washington Legislature is aware of the need for productive extracurricular programs like 4H, Future Farmers of America and others. Those programs, he said, help youth stay positively engaged in the community and help to keep them away from poor decisions like drug use.
April 13, 2024
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Area leaders assemble to address opioid epidemic
DESERT AIRE – Leaders from around the Columbia Basin gathered at the Wanapum Heritage Center Thursday to discuss the ongoing battle against Fentanyl – a synthetic opioid that caused nearly two dozen deaths in Grant County last year – and other opioids in the Columbia Basin. “(In Grant County in 2022), for opioids in general there were 486 patients and 23 deaths to an opioid overdose,” said Grant County Health District Harm Reduction Program Coordinator Mariah Delon Munoz.