Escambia County Commissioner Jeff Bergosh discusses some alarming facts from last week’s meeting of the Mental Health Task Force.
“In addition to the area experiencing 3,120 Baker Acts already this year, we now also hold the dubious distinction of being the number one county in the state of Florida for drug overdoses,” Commissioner Bergosh wrote on his blog last Saturday. “From January to June 27, Escambia County EMS has dealt with 1,024 Overdoses, or 5.6 per day in our area on average.”
