When Avery Kalafatas’ cousin died in 2020, it was a blow that put her on a path to help other teens avoid the same fate.
Kalafatas, 17, of Ross said her cousin, Aidan Mullin, took a pill he got from a friend. Mullin thought the pill was Percocet, a prescription pain medication.
“In fact, while much has been written about COVID-19, the media has focused far too little on the fact that fentanyl has taken more lives of Americans between the ages of 18 and 35 than COVID and its variants,” she said.California Overdose Surveillance Database “For any Marin residents under the age of 60, there was a 10 times higher risk of dying from a drug overdose than the risk of dying of COVID in 2021,” Willis said.
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