Fentanyl foil litters Seattle playgrounds like autumn leaves as nonprofit fueling this problem

SEATTLE — City advocates say they are struggling to find solutions as homelessness and open-air drug use spread across Seattle’s streets, amid growing concerns about the direction of socialist Mayor Katie Wilson’s new administration.“You can just see the foil is like blowing down the sidewalks like autumn leaves,” Andrea Suarez, founder and executive director of We Heart Seattle, told Fox News Digital in an interview. “Very common to see property damage of our parks and shared spaces.You can see Narcan is used to reverse an overdose, so you’ll see cartridges.

But at least we’re remodeling the bathroom to be gender-neutral.I’m not [kidding] you, that’s where our priorities are.” Suarez, who founded We Heart Seattle in the fall of 2020 to clean up her city, public spaces, and offer resources to people in need, says her city has been overtaken by homelessness and open-air drug use, and she said it isn’t getting any better.“In this park alone, which is Dr.

Jose Rizal Park, Lewis Park, and Sturgus Park, there’s three connected parks here.In one afternoon, we picked up several hundred pieces of foil in the off-leash dog park, near the children’s playgrounds, and the memorials, and the pagoda that’s over here as well.” “You can just see every one of these foils was a pill.

It could have been a potential overdose,” Suarez said.“So pretty jarring when you think about this being in our parks, at our bus stops, you can see the straws.

You can see there’s needles as well.And oftentimes we’ll find that the drugs are still rolled up in the foil, and they get dropped.

And we’ve had several hundred cases of overdoses and poisoning of infants and dogs.”Suarez said that King County Behavioral Health in downtown Seattle now provides information on how to reverse an overdose in dogs.“That’s how bad it is,” Suarez said.“It’s how prevalent this is in our shared spaces.” She said area stores will sell a “bubble,” ...