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Residents urge Chino to act on 7‑OH opioid, animal‑shelter transparency and question housing‑element counts
Summary
During public comment, outreach workers warned council about a widely sold opioid substitute called '7‑OH', animal‑welfare advocates pressed for transparency and reporting from ARC, and a resident contested the city’s housing‑element site counts; staff pledged follow‑up on all three topics.
Several residents used the public‑comment period at Tuesday’s council meeting to press elected officials on public‑health and transparency issues.
Alex Lopez, an outreach specialist with Reach Out, told the council he is seeing an emerging opioid‑type product marketed as "7‑OH" or "7‑0" sold in smoke shops in multiple forms and warned it can be highly potent and dangerous. "7‑0 is an opioid that anyone can buy without prescriptions," Lopez said, and added that the product has not been FDA‑approved and that nearby counties and some cities have enacted local restrictions. Council members asked Lopez to leave…
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