The legislation will divert $20 million to increase treatment and overdose response services and $7 million for new capital investments focused on leading with drug treatment.
Heroin syringes hang stuck in a tree at a homeless encampment on March 13, 2022 in Seattle, Washington. Widespread drug addiction is endemic in Seattle's large homeless community, which the city is currently trying to move out from shared public spaces. The city has struggled with an uptick in homelessness and violent crime in the two years since the pandemic began.
“Since the Legislature adopted its law, my goal has been for Seattle to implement the Blake fix in an effective manner that responds to the two crises fentanyl has imposed on our city: A crisis of public health and a crisis of public safety,” Lewis said in a prepared statement. Lewis is expected to sponsor the bill.
The suite of bills comes nearly two months after Lewis was the deciding vote to reject an ordinance that would have given City Attorney Ann Davison the authority to prosecute people for public drug use or possession.
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