California
California’s inexcusable resistance to stronger opioid overdose treatments
In abstract
Because the opioid epidemic worsens, California officers have up to now declined to make use of a stronger overdose remedy accepted by the FDA final 12 months.
In April 2020, I discovered my 16-year-old son, Daniel, unconscious in his mattress.
He had overdosed on a counterfeit Oxycodone capsule that he bought on Snapchat. It was spiked with fentanyl. Just a few days later, Daniel’s mom and I have been pressured to decide that no father or mother ought to ever face: we eliminated our son from life help.
There aren’t any phrases to explain the agony that I and much too many different dad and mom have skilled.
America’s opioid epidemic is extra lethal than ever. Spurred by the proliferation of fentanyl and different highly-potent artificial painkillers, greater than 100,000 individuals died from an opioid overdose over a one-year span after Daniel’s dying, in response to the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. Sadly, overdose deaths surged 48% p.c over an analogous interval statewide, representing the fifth-highest improve within the nation.
The mounting toll calls for swift and decisive motion from our authorities. Thus far, California is just not doing sufficient to stop overdose deaths.
The U.S. Meals and Drug Administration final 12 months accepted a double-strength naloxone product, Kloxxado, to assist counteract stronger medication like fentanyl, which is as much as 50 instances stronger than heroin and 100 instances stronger than morphine. Naloxone is a drugs that quickly reverses an opioid overdose, and has helped revive numerous overdose victims by restoring their respiration. Double-strength naloxone is run in the very same means as conventional nasal spray naloxone, and carries the identical warnings and precautions.
Helped partially by federal grants, California distributes free naloxone to first responders, group organizations, colleges and well being care suppliers. Many reportedly use a number of doses to revive somebody, spurring efforts to develop overdose reversal therapies to incorporate Kloxxado. A big selection of stakeholders have launched a letter-writing marketing campaign, hosted instructional boards and even testified on the Legislature to boost consciousness.
Sadly, the California Division of Well being Care Companies and state leaders have declined to incorporate stronger naloxone therapies of their applications, needlessly placing the lives of Californians at better threat. It’s inexcusable that authorities officers refuse to make the most of each device obtainable to confront this epidemic.
Since my son’s unfathomable dying, I’ve devoted my life to making sure that different dad and mom should not have to undergo the identical kind of tragedy that my household has skilled. Via this work, I’ve met and labored with numerous different dad and mom who misplaced youngsters to fentanyl, which has been an unlucky blessing.
An essential piece of our work is making certain that the state officers do their half to get the best overdose reversal instruments into the palms of people who want them most. I do know all too effectively that that is actually a matter of life and dying.
California should make double-strength naloxone obtainable earlier than extra households expertise the unspeakable tragedy that mine lives with day-after-day. The state’s inaction within the face of a historic epidemic is unconscionable.
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Caitlyn Jenner says she'd 'destroy' Kamala Harris in hypothetical race to be CA gov
SAN FRANCISCO – Caitlyn Jenner, the gold-medal Olympian-turned reality TV personality, is considering another run for Governor of California. This time, she says, if she were to go up against Vice President Kamala Harris, she would “destroy her.”
Jenner, who publicly came out as transgender nearly 10 years ago, made a foray into politics when she ran as a Republican during the recall election that attempted to unseat Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021. Jenner only received one percent of the vote and was not considered a serious candidate.
Jenner posted this week on social media that she’s having conversations with “many people” and hopes to have an announcement soon about whether she will run.
Caitlyn Jenner speaks at the 4th annual Womens March LA: Women Rising at Pershing Square on January 18, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images)
She has also posted in Trumpian-style all caps: “MAKE CA GREAT AGAIN!”
As for VP Harris, she has not indicated any future plans for when she leaves office. However, a recent poll suggests Harris would have a sizable advantage should she decide to run in 2026. At that point, Newsom cannot run again because of term limits.
If Jenner decides to run and wins, it would mark the nation and state’s first transgender governor.
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Northern California 6-year-old, parents hailed as heroes for saving woman who crashed into canal
LIVE OAK — A six-year-old and her parents are being called heroes by a Northern California community for jumping into a canal to save a 75-year-old woman who drove off the road.
It happened on Larkin Road near Paseo Avenue in the Sutter County community of Live Oak on Monday.
“I just about lost her, but I didn’t,” said Terry Carpenter, husband of the woman who was rescued. “We got more chances.”
Terry said his wife of 33 years, Robin Carpenter, is the love of his life and soulmate. He is grateful he has been granted more time to spend with her after she survived her car crashing off a two-lane road and overturning into a canal.
“She’s doing really well,” Terry said. “No broken bones, praise the Lord.”
It is what some call a miracle that could have had a much different outcome without a family of good Samaritans.
“Her lips were purple,” said Ashley Martin, who helped rescue the woman. “There wasn’t a breath at all. I was scared.”
Martin and her husband, Cyle Johnson, are being hailed heroes by the Live Oak community for jumping into the canal, cutting Robin out of her seat belt and pulling her head above water until first responders arrived.
“She was literally submerged underwater,” Martin said. “She had a back brace on. Apparently, she just had back surgery. So, I grabbed her brace from down below and I flipped her upward just in a quick motion to get her out of that water.”
The couple said the real hero was their six-year-old daughter, Cayleigh Johnson.
“It was scary,” Cayleigh said. “So the car was going like this, and it just went boom, right into the ditch.”
Cayleigh was playing outside and screamed for her parents who were inside the house near the canal.
I spoke with Robin from her hospital bed over the phone who told us she is in a lot of pain but grateful.
“The thing I can remember is I started falling asleep and then I was going over the bump and I went into the ditch and that’s all I remember,” Robin said.
It was a split-second decision for a family who firefighters said helped save a stranger’s life.
“It’s pretty unique that someone would jump in and help somebody that they don’t even know,” said Battalion Chief for Sutter County Fire Richard Epperson.
Robin is hopeful that she will be released from the hospital on Wednesday in time to be home for Thanksgiving.
“She gets Thanksgiving and Christmas now with her family and grandkids,” Martin said.
Terry and Robin are looking forward to eventually meeting the family who helped save Robin’s life. The family expressed the same feelings about meeting the woman they helped when she is out of the hospital.
“I can’t wait for my baby to get home,” Terry said.
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California may exclude Tesla from EV rebate program
California Gov. Gavin Newsom may exclude Tesla and other automakers from an electric vehicle (EV) rebate program if the incoming Trump administration scraps a federal tax credit for electric car purchases.
Newsom proposed creating a new version of the state’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program, which was phased out in 2023 after funding more than 594,000 vehicles and saving more than 456 million gallons of fuel, the governor’s office said in a news release on Monday.
“Consumers continue to prove the skeptics wrong – zero-emission vehicles are here to stay,” Newsom said in a statement. “We’re not turning back on a clean transportation future – we’re going to make it more affordable for people to drive vehicles that don’t pollute.”
The proposed rebates would be funded with money from the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which is funded by polluters under the state’s cap-and-trade program, the governor’s office said. Officials did not say how much the program would cost or save consumers.
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They would also include changes to promote innovation and competition in the zero-emission vehicles market – changes that could prevent automakers like Tesla from qualifying for the rebates.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who relocated Tesla’s corporate headquarters from California to Texas in 2021, responded to the possibility of having Tesla EVs left out of the program.
“Even though Tesla is the only company who manufactures their EVs in California! This is insane,” Musk wrote on X, which he also owns.
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Those buying or leasing Tesla vehicles accounted for about 42% of the state’s rebates, The Associated Press reported, citing data from the California Air Resources Board.
Newsom’s office told Fox Business Digital that the proposal is intended to foster market competition, and any potential market cap is subject to negotiation with the state Legislature.
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“Under a potential market cap, and depending on what the cap is, there’s a possibility that Tesla and other automakers could be excluded,” the governor’s office said. “But that’s again subject to negotiations with the legislature.”
Newsom’s office noted that such market caps have been part of rebate programs since George W. Bush’s administration in 2005.
Federal tax credits for EVs are currently worth up to $7,500 for new zero-emission vehicles. President-elect Trump has previously vowed to end the credit.
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California has surpassed 2 million zero-emission vehicles sold, according to the governor’s office. The state, however, could face a $2 billion budget deficit next year, Reuters reported, citing a non-partisan legislative estimate released last week.
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