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PROCLAMATION
Truckee, California
WHEREAS, the Town of Truckee does affirm and acknowledge the harm and hardship caused by drug overdose; and
WHEREAS, we recognize the purpose of National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day was established in remembrance of those lost to illicit fentanyl poisoning and to acknowledge the
devastation this drug has brought to hundreds of thousands of affected family members and friends; and
WHEREAS, the fentanyl epidemic in the United States is a serious public safety threat, with illicit fentanyl poisoning rates currently reaching the highest level in history and fentanyl
poisoning now the number one cause of death among Americans ages 18 to 45; and
WHEREAS, fentanyl is a highly addictive synthetic opioid that is 100 times more potent than morphine. According to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), illicit fentanyl
is being manufactured with other illicit drugs to increase potency, sold as powders and mixed with other illicit drugs, and is increasingly pressed into counterfeit pills made to look
like legitimate pharmaceutical drugs; and
WHEREAS, fentanyl-contaminated drugs are killing people in the United States every day. Drug toxicity deaths are up over 30% nationally, with illicit fentanyl being the primary reason
for the increase. It is becoming more common for individuals to use a pill or other drugs without knowing it contains fentanyl; and
WHEREAS, we resolve to play our part in reducing the toll of overdose in our community, which claimed the lives of more than 28 residents in Nevada County last year together with countless
more affected forever; and
WHEREAS, community organizations The Speedy Foundation, Know Overdose Nevada County, Nevada County Behavioral and Public Health, Gateway Mountain Center, Tahoe Forest Hospital, and others
work to provide overdose prevention education, harm reduction materials such as Narcan and fentanyl testing strips, and substance use treatment to members of the Truckee community.
Now, therefore, be it proclaimed, by the Mayor of the Town of Truckee does that August 21, 2023, is National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day in Truckee, CA.
Done this the 8th day of August 2023.
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Lindsay Romack, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Judy Price, MMC, Town Clerk