{"id":333961,"date":"2026-05-27T04:52:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333961\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T04:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:52:24","slug":"assemblymember-bains-touts-kern-county-fentanyl-task-force-receives-nearly-11m-in-funds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333961\/","title":{"rendered":"Assemblymember Bains touts Kern County fentanyl task force, receives nearly $11M in funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County\u2019s fentanyl task force has received nearly $11 million in state funding, and Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains says the effort is already producing results in both treatment and enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The task force brings together health care providers, law enforcement, and other experts to tackle the fentanyl crisis through treatment and enforcement. Bains, a Democrat from Delano, said the program led to the creation of Kern County\u2019s first inpatient detox program for Medi-Cal patients.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e7146e41-a6f4-4b6c-8b20-846855cbdc9f-Sequence_EVERT_0526JASMEETBAINS_0001_frame_50828.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the addiction world, you get maybe 50 to 60% retention rate; we had a 90% retention rate in Kern County, we are going to lead the way on getting people the help that they need,\u201d Bains said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/kern-county-misuse-and-overdose-task-force-unveils-drug-detox-pilot-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED: Kern County misuse and overdose task force unveils drug detox pilot program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/76f568ed-9a83-4b28-bba4-5a772bae7e94-Sequence_EVERT_0526JASMEETBAINS_0001_frame_8232.jpeg\"\/>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>On the enforcement side, Bains said the task force has helped take more than 224 pounds of fentanyl off the streets since it was launched in July 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County\u2019s fentanyl task force has received nearly $11 million in state funding, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-333961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}