Criminal
May 25, 2023
Assembly hearing debates best response to fentanyl crisis
Legislative Republicans have repeatedly criticized their colleagues in recent weeks for failing to pass several GOP bills designed to deal with the overdose crisis.
Addicts or criminals? Even after a four-hour hearing on Wednesday, there was little agreement in the state Assembly about the correct legal and law enforcement response to the fentanyl crisis. One reason is a high level of overlap between victims and dealers.
“Many people who sell drugs on the street are themselves drug users from the same community as the victims of drug overdoses,” said Michael Mendoza, director of Advocacy at the Anti-R...
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