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San Ramon declares March 2025 Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month; local group highlights fentanyl dangers
Summary
The City Council read a proclamation declaring March 2025 Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month. Local nonprofit NCAPDA representatives described local overdose data, naloxone distribution and youth outreach, and council members praised their ongoing education work.
The San Ramon City Council read a proclamation at its March 11 meeting declaring March 2025 Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month and encouraging safe storage and disposal of prescription medications.
April (no last name provided), speaking for the local nonprofit NCAPDA (National Coalition Against Prescription Drug Abuse, per her remarks), briefed the council on local trends and prevention efforts. She said county-level tools such as ODMAP show 48 suspected overdoses in San Ramon between Jan. 1, 2023, and the date she pulled data before the meeting; she said one of those was a fatality and naloxone was administered on 16 occasions. April warned that fentanyl in counterfeit pills is “the biggest contributor to overdose” and that fake pills distributed via social media can be lethal.
April described NCAPDA’s local programs: free naloxone training and distribution, fentanyl test-strip distribution, youth-ambassador outreach in high schools, and a plan to place naloxone distribution units that hold about 45 boxes each in public locations. She noted a grant from the Dougherty Valley San Ramon Rotary Club helped purchase distribution boxes and that NCAPDA offers training sign-ups at ncapda.org.
Three youth ambassadors—Shrey Sharma (Cal High), Adishi Gupta (Monte Vista High) and Anvita Kadambi—addressed the council and described school-based outreach and peer education on fentanyl and prescription-drug misuse.
Council members praised NCAPDA’s work and accepted printed flyers and training offers. The proclamation was read and presented during the meeting; no council roll-call vote was recorded on the record in the transcript, and the item proceeded as a ceremonial proclamation and public-comment presentation.
