The year 2023 saw a number of records being shattered under the administration of Joe Biden, though few of them could be described as admirable or desirable. Few locations in the United States exemplify that fact better than Seattle, Washington, and the surrounding region of King County. Seattle was busy setting records in statistics including people fleeing the area and rising homelessness. But perhaps the grimmest statistic of them all was the record number of drug overdose deaths recorded, with fentanyl being the culprit in the vast majority of incidents. As the Daily Wire reports this week, the Emerald City racked up nearly 1,300 fatal overdoses from drugs and alcohol last year. That’s an increase of more than 30 percent from the prior year and far, far above pre-pandemic levels.
The Seattle area notched a grim record for deaths that involved fentanyl last year, with more…
