In 2-day summit, Whatcom County focuses on ‘fractured’ opioid response

Health care workers, tribal leaders, educators, community members and law enforcement gathered Tuesday and Wednesday, June 27–28, for the inaugural All Hands Whatcom: Opioid Summit to find a centralized approach to addressing the opioid crisis.  As of June 6, at least 35 people had died of an overdose in Whatcom County. The majority of these drug deaths were due to fentanyl or other synthetic opioids.  The summit was a two-day event hosted by the Chuckanut Health Foundation in