We have set up a petition so that Governor Newsom can understand the overwhelming amount of support for overdose prevention programs and that the majority of Americans want him to sign SB 57. Can you take less than a minute to sign this petition?
A similar measure, AB 186, was vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown in 2018. Since the 2018 veto, California has experienced over 26,871 overdoses according to the CDC. In the past three years the California overdose rate nearly doubled with an unprecedented 10,000 deaths in 2021.
But this is just part of the story, communities of color in California have felt the unequal burden of the overdose crisis. According to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Center for Health Statistics and Informatics Vital Statistics:
- Black overdose deaths increased by 2.73 times between 2017 and 2021;
- Latinx deaths nearly tripled between 2017 and 2021;
- Native deaths doubled between 2017 and 2021.
We will deliver the petition to the Governor’s office to demonstrate the support that exists to permit the operation of overdose prevention programs, and urge him to sign the bill because no one should mourn the loss of a loved one, friend or colleague to a preventable drug overdose.
| Thank you, Jeannette Zanipatin State Director, California Drug Policy Alliance |
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