Police: Toddler overdoses from fentanyl exposure in Everett apartment

Published 3:10 pm Wednesday, June 14, 2023

EVERETT — A 2-year-old has been released from the hospital after overdosing from a suspected fentanyl exposure in an Everett apartment Sunday, Everett police said.

Around 2:30 p.m., police responded to an apartment in the 2500 block Howard Avenue of a toddler who had reportedly been given Narcan after a fentanyl exposure, Everett officer Ora Hamel said. The child was then transported to Providence Medical Regional Everett and later to Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Hamel did not have any further update on the child’s condition Wednesday.

It remained an active investigation this week. No arrests had been made.

The 2-year-old is the third reported child to overdose from fentanyl exposure in Everett in the past month, including a 1-year-old girl who died after ingesting her mother’s fentanyl at Sunrise Inn, according to a search warrant filed by a sheriff’s detective. No formal charges have been filed in that case.

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is many times more potent than heroin or morphine. It’s often pressed into illicit pills that look like prescription opioids.

The county has seen a spike in fentanyl overdoses in minors in recent years. In 2022, 10 people under the age of 19 overdosed from fentanyl, almost double the figure from 2020, according to the county medical examiner’s office.

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