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Friend, thousands of people like you have signed our petition calling on Governor Newsom to sign SB 57, the lifesaving bill that would bring overdose prevention centers to California.

We will hand-deliver all the signers to his office tomorrow morning at 9:30am PT. This is your last chance to sign the petition and show your support for this vital bill along with so many others in California and across the country.

With only hours left, please add your name now. If you’ve already signed, help build even more support by sharing the petition, forwarding this email to people you know, and spreading the word on social media.

As I told you last week, there are rumors he could veto and we can’t let that happen! His decision could come at any moment and he must act by this Monday, August 22.

Please sign and share our petition immediately so we can deliver your name directly to his office tomorrow. With your support, I’m hopeful we can convince him to approve this bill that will address the overdose crisis and save the lives of our loved ones.

Thank you,
Jeannette

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From: Jeannette Zanipatin - DPA
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2022
To: [email protected]
Subject: Tell Gov. Newsom to bring overdose prevention programs to California

Friend, there are rumors that Governor Newsom may veto SB 57, the lifesaving bill that would open overdose prevention programs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland. He has less than 10 days to sign this bill and we urgently need your help to ensure that he does.

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.

Don’t let history repeat itself–sign the petition now urging Governor Newsom to sign SB 57, the lifesaving bill that would open overdose prevention programs in California.

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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