Fentanyl deaths are down across the Bay Area. One county’s harm reduction group says it’s proof their strategy is working.

Fentanyl deaths are down across the Bay Area. One county’s harm reduction group says it’s proof their strategy is working.

At the Harm Reduction Coalition of Santa Cruz County’s mobile syringe clinic, a single lamp shines a bright circle over folding tables stacked with boxes of soap, toothpaste, electrolytes, syringes, condoms and Narcan — a drug that can reverse opioid overdoses. HRCSCC’s Blanca Carrillo is working with a few volunteers as clients line up a few feet away, waiting to request a paper bag of supplies. As a former drug user, Carrillo wishes these serv…