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Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced that the first of more than 54,000 naloxone overdose reversal kits started arriving in Washington.

Locally, Thurston County Public Health and Social Services (TCPHSS) facilitates the Thurston County Opioid Response Task Force. As part of this work, the Overdose Workgroup of the Thurston County Opioid Response Task Force will be hosting an event in Olympia on August 31 to remember International Overdose Awareness Day.

State and local entities are deciding how to spend funds from several opioid settlements.

So far in 2023, 17 of 19 overdoses involved fentanyl, according to the Cowlitz County Coroner. Meanwhile, here's who's handing out naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal medication.