In King County's opioid crisis, is kindness killing people?

Campbell River memorial honours those lost to opioid crisis

The Blue Hat Memorial Project, which runs until the end of the month, aims to highlight the continuing effects of the opioid crisis

In King County's opioid crisis, is kindness killing people?

Art Dahlen isn’t one to mince words. And as the founder of Kent-based Battlefield Addiction, he’s grown tired of watching well-meaning policies inadvertently fuel a crisis he said is devastating families and claiming lives at record levels. “It’s criminally negligent,” Dahlen told KIRO Newsradio bluntly, standing outside one of his sober-living recovery homes in Kent. “We’re losing people at an alarming rate. Fentanyl is killing people every day…