Orange County Officials Pledge to Fight ‘Fentanyl Epidemic’ Amid Rising Death

Orange County Officials Pledge to Fight ‘Fentanyl Epidemic’ Amid Rising Death
Bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, are displayed at the office of the New York Attorney General in New York City on Sept. 23, 2016. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Vanessa Serna
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As the fentanyl epidemic leads hundreds to an early death each year in Orange County, the county’s Board of Supervisors vowed, during a Jan. 25 meeting, to stand with law enforcement to combat the threat of fentanyl.

“In our community, we lost a young man and his girlfriend. ... They thought they were taking Xanax,” Supervisor Katrina Foley said. “They ended up dying in each other’s arms, and my friend, their mom, found them asleep.”