WA health official encourages public drug use after bus drivers report symptoms from fentanyl exposure

In response to increasing concerns from King County bus drivers regarding rampant public use of fentanyl and other drugs by addicts on transit systems, a local health official has claimed that secondhand exposure "just wasn't happening" and stated, "We don't want people to be using in private spaces alone, we want people to be using in a place where if they overdose they can be discovered and helped through that overdose."

King County Metro drivers are concerned about exposure to rampant fentanyl use on mass transit in Washington state. The problem has been increasing for years as local Democrats made the problems worse through their policies of decriminalizing possession.

Data obtained by KOMO News revealed there were 1,885 reports of drug use on the bus system in 2022 with 52 workers reported being exposed to smoke from drugs. 16 operators have filed worker's comp claims.

Stevon Williams, a bus driver for King County Metro, told KOMO that fentanyl smoke is so common that it's making him sick. "I really hadn’t ever heard of fentanyl smoking on the bus when I was hired by Metro. I don’t want to be put in a predicament where I’m around drugs every day on my job - I didn’t sign up for that."