A DANGEROUS TURN IN THE OPIOID CRISIS: TRUTH-TELLING IN LOCAL MEDIA REPORTS
Another rip in the Matrix, exposing the failure of expert gold standard treatments and an unraveling of the lethal fiction constructed by America’s Medical/Media collusion
by Clark Miller
Published September 5, 2025
The report was on KSHB 41 News from Kansas City, Missouri, titled “Clay County sees decline in overdose deaths for first time in years, credits Narcan”. Clay County is part of the Kansas City metro area.
Fatal opioid overdoses in Clay County and across Missouri are beginning to decline—and health officials say one resource is making a critical difference: Narcan. ..
“The number one attributor that we can assign to the reduction of deaths in 2023 really is that Narcan or Naloxone that has become very readily accessible to most of the community,” said Wehner. …
Statewide, Missouri also reported its first decline in years.
“As a county we did see a decline in fatal overdoses in 2023, that decline still left us at a fairly significant rate of fatal overdoses, so this problem is not going away.” …
While the county is seeing a dip in opioid overdose deaths, health officials stress there’s still an opioid crisis happening.
“We are still seeing that opioid like ER visits associated with opioid overdose and hospitalizations, those are still either staying steady or on the increase, so that doesn’t necessarily mean that opioid use is going down.”
Across the state line in Kansas and in the same Kansas City metro area, new reporting in the Kansas City Star points to a similar situation that belies recent media celebrations of an opioid crisis all but vanquished.
From that reporting,
“We are in a crisis. And I am afraid that we are at the front end of a tidal wave,” said Tony Mattivi, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, whose agency is part of a new team of law enforcement officers created to fight fentanyl. “I’m very concerned, with the way the numbers keep going up, that it’s going to get much worse before it gets better.”
In Kansas City, Missouri (KCMO), public health officials attribute recent drops in fatal opioid overdoses to community Narcan campaigns, while opioid overdoses continue to surge.
“We are still seeing that opioid like ER visits associated with opioid overdose and hospitalizations, those are still either staying steady or on the increase, so that doesn’t necessarily mean that opioid use is going down.”
Ashley Wegner, Deputy Director of the Clay County Public Health Center, says that access is saving lives
“The number one attributor that we can assign to the reduction of deaths in 2023 really is that Narcan or Naloxone that has become very readily accessible to most of the community,” said Wegner.
In the Northland Health Alliance area, which includes Clay and Platte counties, the opioid overdose death rate dipped from 16.6 deaths per 100,000 people in 2022 to 16.1 in 2023
Kansas City is no outlier, no exception, instead is a predictable example of the generalized phenomenon – across the U.S. consistently in diverse locales – of a worsening opioid crisis evidenced by persistent and increasing nonfatal overdoses, each one representing high-risk opioid use, a valid, determinative measure of gold standard treatment failure. And it’s established that those reports of nonfatal ODs, from emergency responder and emergency department reports, are significant underestimates, because, as reported consistently by direct-service providers, increasingly successful reversals are happening at the community level, on the streets, and are not reported – increasingly as the naloxone campaigns entirely accounting for recent drops in opioid overdose deaths (fatal overdoses) are successfully getting Narcan where it is needed, in the hands of laypersons.
That clear evidence of a worsening epidemic in Kansas City, as everywhere, and as provision of gold standard medical and gold standard “addiction” treatment programming have increased and are in fact widely available (see here and here for example) is not what is unusual, it’s the lethal pattern. What is unusual is to see it reported in media accounts, an anomaly, a rip in The Matrix, a dangerous betrayal and exposure within the medical/media self-protecting collusion. As in this reporting, and in this.
