#fentanyl epidemic

Big Island fentanyl arrests and recovery stats for March

The 107.18 total grams of illicit fentanyl recovered by Hawai‘i Police Department in March was enough to kill 53,590 Hawai‘i Island residents.

Fentanyl task force following Big Island blueprint coming to Kaua‘i

County representatives were part of a two-day training program administered by the Hawaii Island Task Force last month, which included representatives from the Kauai Police Department, the Kauai Safety Bureau, the county prosecutor’s office, the county housing agency, health care providers, and various nonprofits.

Young lives on the Big Island are being lost to drug overdoses and deadly fentanyl

In the past two months, a teenager has died from a drug overdose and a teenager and a young adult have died of suspected drug overdoses, police said.