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Opioids and opiates - such as heroin and methadone - were the biggest contributors to fatal overdoses in 2024.

According to the Los Angeles County Medical-Examiner’s autopsy and toxicology reports, Rivera was 6 feet tall, 288 pounds and was under the influence of opiates when he was killed.

Positive opiate drug screenings in the state’s prisons hovered at about 6% on average every month, according to data obtained by UnCommon Law.

What do you think would happen, I asked my daughter, a nurse practitioner who works in addiction medicine, if Narcan, the drug that reverses opiate overdoses, were suddenly to disappear from pharmacy shelves?

According to UnCommon Law, positive opiate drug screenings in the state’s prisons hovered at about 6% each month on average.