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    Fentanyl overdoses contribute to surge in LA County homeless deaths

    by Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times May 12, 2023 3 minutes
    Shannon Knox, 38, places the photos overdose victims at a makeshift memorial on International Overdose Awareness Day outside L.A. City Hall on Aug. 31, 2022, in Los Angeles.

    LOS ANGELES — A devastating surge in drug overdoses drove up deaths among unhoused people in Los Angeles County in recent years, along with the rising toll of traffic collisions and homicides, according to a public health department report released Friday.

    The death rate increased 55% among people experiencing homelessness in L.A. County between 2019 and 2021, a markedly sharper increase than in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials found.

    More than 2,200 unhoused people died across the county in 2021 — the first time the agency has reported an annual toll exceeding 2,000,

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