By Dianne Anderson Conversations around fentanyl overdose usually start after the crisis, or after death, when there’s nothing left to prevent. In 2024 alone, nearly 48,000 people died nationwide in overdoses involving synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. This weekend, Long Beach is trying to get ahead of the next one, starting with things that could ...

By Dianne Anderson Fentanyl, once known as a white suburban and rural youth problem stemming from “pill mills” of the southeast and midwest, has now morphed into an inner city Black men problem, where overdose deaths are rising faster than all other groups. Early on in the epidemic, health providers generously blamed addiction in white  ...