It began with a painkiller prescription after his wisdom teeth were extracted.
Choate was born in Concord but raised in Clayton. “She was gone and that was like the end of her life,” said her grieving father Walter.Īnother casualty during the pandemic is Jeffrey Choate. Little did Valentina know that the drug contained a lethal dose of fentanyl. A friend at her high school gave her half a pill, telling her it would relax her. And he was gone,” said his mother, Denise.ġ4-year-old Valentina from Concord also died from an accidental overdose.
“I got to this house as quickly as I could. Tom took one, without knowing it contained three times the lethal dose of fentanyl and Terry fatally overdosed. He sought out an acquaintance who said he had Xanax to sell. He was feeling anxious, and jobs were drying up. They are often packed into pills that resemble other medications.ĭuring the pandemic, that is how East Bay welder 24-year-old Tom Terry died.
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These days, fake or counterfeit pills full of fentanyl are flooding the market. “We might have overdose calls to traditional family homes to apartments,” noted Pleasant Hill Police Officer Nicholas Filippini. KPIX 5 has spoken to grieving families from Silicon Valley to the wine country, Marin to Hillsborough, and the Tri-Valley. The rising tide of addiction and overdose deaths is found everywhere. Most of us when asked to consider the opioid crisis may think about San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood: the tents, the homeless, the mentally ill and the open-air drug dealingīut make no mistake about it. The pandemic has pushed the crisis to disturbing new heights. Since 1999, more than 600,000 people in the United States and Canada have died of an opioid overdose. READ MORE: San Quentin Inmate On Death Row Dies During Hospital Stay SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) - A new report on the nation’s ongoing opioid crisis released Wednesday is calling for urgent steps to be taken for a deepening disaster that is afflicting every corner of the Bay Area.
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