Tracking California’s Opioid Epidemic | Upcoming Live Music with Insight’s ‘Concert Connect’
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A protester gathers containers that look like OxyContin bottles at an anti-opioid demonstration in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington on April 5, 2019.
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An investigation tracks the evolution of California’s decades-long opioid epidemic, leading to fentanyl. Insight’s “Concert Connect” highlights upcoming live music across Northern California.
Tracking California's opioid epidemic
Opioid deaths in California have seen a massive spike in recent years, up over 120% in the years between 2019 and 2021. Fentanyl is mostly to blame. The cheap, intensely addictive and super-potenent drug can kill a person with as little as 2 milligrams, or smaller than the tip of a pencil. CalMatters health reporter, Ana Ibarra, has released a comprehensive investigation into fentanyl and its impact on California, from which communities are being impacted the most to how much the state is spending on getting it off the streets.
Insight's "Concert Connect"
CapRadio Hosts Nick Brunner and Andrew Garcia join us for another edition of Insight’s “Concert Connect” talking about upcoming live shows in Northern California. This week features Plum Anderson at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco on Sun. Aug. 20, Jess Williamson at The Starlet Room at Harlow's on Tue. Aug. 29, Dengue Fever at Harlow's on Wed. Sept. 20, and Buckethead at Ace of Spades on Wed. Sept. 27
If you want more modern music discovery, check out “Hey, Listen!” on Saturdays from 3-5p and 8-10p on CapRadio.
