Fresno City Council to consider Narcan ordinance for businesses serving alcohol

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- On Thursday, the Fresno City Council is expected to ballot connected a caller ordinance that volition springiness businesses that service intoxicant entree to the opioid reversal cause Narcan.

"In the past 3 years present unsocial successful Fresno County, we've experienced astir 300 related fentanyl deaths," said Annalisa Perea, metropolis assembly president.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroine.

Perea says this caller ordinance volition connection 2 cans to bars, nightclubs, lounges and adjacent restaurants that service alcohol.

Fresno volition beryllium the archetypal metropolis successful the state, and 2nd successful the federation to follow an ordinance similar this.

"We bash person a large concern with the Fresno County Public Health Department and truthful they person agreed to enactment with america to not lone distribute, not lone assistance america bid the managers but to supply the escaped dose," said Perea .

But it's not conscionable bars assemblage members are acrophobic about.

Less than 10 miles distant from City Hall, 1 enactment is warring to get arsenic galore Narcan devices successful the hands of radical who whitethorn request them.

"We worked with Clovis Unified. And present Clovis Unified has Narcan, not lone successful their schools but successful astir each classroom," explained Flindt Andersen with Parents and Addicts In Need, besides known arsenic PAIN.

Pictures of celebrities that person overdosed successful years past enactment the walls of PAIN.

Andersen says it's a grim reminder of the cause occupation successful America.

"We are successful an epidemic similar we person ne'er seen before," said Andersen.

Andersen says he's received pushback from radical frightened of handling Narcan devices.

"You simply privation to instrumentality and enactment it successful their nostril and conscionable squirt. It's 1 changeable per nostril," Andersen demonstrated.

Although helium believes the metropolis ordinance is simply a bully measurement forward, Andersen urges authorities lawmakers to marque a alteration erstwhile it comes to prevention and recovery.

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