A UCSF doctor says one of the issues with fentanyl is that it's extremely potent, it requires significant doses of Naloxone over a long period of time to reverse an opioid overdose.
UCSF doctor details how fentanyl overdoses are impacting San Francisco hospitals and the workers trying to save drug users' lives.San Francisco appears to be on track to set a new record for overdose deaths in 2023. According to the city's health department, in July alone, 71 people died of an accidental overdose with the majority of them linked to fentanyl.
Dr. Christopher Colwell is a UCSF emergency medicine specialist and the chief of emergency medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.He spoke about the fentanyl crisis, saying the drug is easy to get and potent. "What we're seeing in our emergency department, like in emergency departments across the country, is really severe overdoses that go well beyond what we were seeing before," Colwell says.
Colwell says fentanyl takes significant doses of Naloxone, which reverses an opioid overdose, for long periods of time and that's a reflection of how potent that drug is. "Often times patients come and they're not breathing so it is a desperate effort to try to get them to breathe again and that involves Naloxone and many cases it involves us breathing for them until we're able to turn that effective fentanyl around and sometimes we have to put patients on ventilators," says Dr. Colwell.
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