Assessing the latest documentation about drug trends, Yavapai County Sheriff David Rhodes and Lt. Jarrod Winfrey, commander of Partners Against Narcotics Trafficking (PANT), met to speak about the ongoing fentanyl crises, as well as the variety of calls the YCSO handles. Overdoses overall are currently down to 144 from 159 recorded in 2022, according to Winfrey. However fatal overdoses are up by five. Naloxone, which is used to treat narcotic overdoses, was used 23 times less on scene in 2022. Back in 2016 there were zero seizures however that number spiked to 55 million fentanyl seizures in 2022.
