Next to a row of tents covered with blue tarps on Skid Row, Jasmine Paredes watched a friend scribble a message on a lamppost with a pink Sharpie: L.A. - Fenty is #1 killa - may God help us all.Paredes had recently lost two friends to fentanyl overdoses.She prevented a third death by performing CPR and administering Narcan, a nasal spray that can reverse the effects of opioids - one of nearly a dozen times she has brought someone back from the brink, she said.
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