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Middle and high school students across California will be protected by a new law requiring life-saving prevention and response resources for fentanyl overdoses under legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday.
In 2018, US authorities began following a Bulgarian biochemist who they believed was running a small fentanyl laboratory in Mexico.
Santa Clara County’s Fentanyl Working Group is a model for future county working groups throughout the state.
The synthetic drug is the leading culprit in the U.S. opioid epidemic. Most comes from Mexico, where traffickers have embraced it over heroin.