“You have people who are on there smoking right beside passengers, right beside mothers with little children. It’s for the drug users, they’re looked out for first,” Williams said.
52 King County bus operators reported exposure to drug smoke in 2022.Local health officials say that exposure to smoke from the deadly opioid is not particularly dangerous.
. “It doesn’t just sort of float around … there’s no real risk for the everyday person being exposed to secondhand opioid smoke.”last year, a health department rep said that the media often misreports facts about second-hand fentanyl smoke. Fentanyl can be fatal in trace amounts, however health experts say that exposure to second-hand smoke is not dangerous.King County Metro has doubled its security staff in response to drug use and other safety issues.Oliphant-Wells told metro workers that they actually prefer that users take drugs in public spaces in case of an overdose, although drug use is prohibited on public transit.
In response to the rampant drug use and other safety issues, King County Metro has doubled its security staff.
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