With Overdose Deaths Surging, Critics Chide City, State for Curbing Safe...
San Francisco’s chief medical examiner delivered grim statistics last week about a recent increase in deaths related to drug use. In the first three months of the year, 200 people died of accidental...
View ArticleMilitary-Style Drug War in Tenderloin Sparks Fears That More Drug Users Could...
Last week’s deployment of the National Guard and California Highway Patrol onto San Francisco’s streets to crack down on drugs comes amid intense public pressure to address open air drug use and...
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City Leaders at Odds as Overdose Deaths Trending Toward Record High
Updated 8/24/23: This story was updated to include a new chart from the chief medical examiner’s updated report. See the note at the end of this story for details. Accidental drug overdose deaths...
View ArticleSupervisor Defends Dropping Support for Addiction-Treatment Centers
Supervisor Matt Dorsey received backlash this month for asking the mayor to redirect the entire $18.9 million in city funding budgeted for a new drop-in addiction treatment center toward jails...
View ArticleSan Francisco’s Fatal Overdose Crisis Was Decades in the Making
This article is adapted from an episode of our podcast “Civic.” Click the audio player below to hear the full story. Susan Lefever, who lived on the streets of the Tenderloin for 10 years before...
View ArticleSF ‘Failing’ on Housing as Overdose Solution, Health Expert Says
This article is adapted from an episode of our podcast “Civic.” Click the audio player below to hear the full story. Sarah Evans has spent decades advancing drug overdose prevention initiatives...
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Drug Crackdown Has Sparked Violent Turf Warfare in Central San Francisco,...
This article is adapted from an episode of our podcast “Civic.” Click the audio player below to hear the full story. A drug crackdown in the Tenderloin and South of Market has resulted in more than...
View ArticleDA’s Opposition to Drug Diversion Programs Undermines Public Safety, Say...
This article is adapted from an episode of our podcast “Civic.” Click the audio player below to hear the full story. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has frequently compared the sale of...
View ArticleCity Officials Lack Urgency to Prevent Overdose Deaths, Say Safe Consumption...
This article is adapted from an episode of our podcast “Civic.” Click the audio player below to hear the full story. Several weeks after a crucial legal hurdle blocking safe consumption sites in San...
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SF Students, SRO Residents Train to Reverse Drug Overdoses
This article is adapted from an episode of our podcast “Civic.” Click the audio player below to hear the full story. Experts in overdose prevention say many teen and adult lives could be saved if...
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2023 Is San Francisco’s Deadliest Year on Record for Drug Overdoses
Last Thursday San Francisco’s chief medical examiner released the city’s updated overdose death count — 752 so far — making 2023 the worst year on record for drug-related fatalities. As fatal...
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