SF News SFDPH Is Handing Out Anti-Psychotic Drugs to Meth Users to Keep Them Out of the Emergency Room For the last two years, SF General Hospital has been proactively trying to limit ER visits and public episodes among meth users by providing them with an anti-psychotic drug called Olanzapine that’s being called “the next Narcan” for stimulant addiction.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Dorsey, Mayor Breed, Propose 'Cash Not Drugs' Plan to Encourage Sobriety A San Francisco Supervisor has some new proposed legislation that would pay an extra $100/week incentive to city welfare recipients if they are in substance-abuse treatment and succeed in staying clean.
SF News Doctors and Users Explain Why Fentanyl Users Are Hunched Over So Often We’ve all observed the tell-tale sign that someone is high on fentanyl in that they’re bent over and frozen in the so-called “fentanyl fold,” and a new Chronicle report speaks to medical experts and users about why this happens.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Proposes Linking Cash Assistance With Compelling Recipients Into Drug Treatment "SF is a city of compassion, but we also need accountability," Mayor London Breed said on Tuesday, announcing a new proposed policy of withholding cash assistance payments to addicts unless they agree to undergo drug treatment.
SF News California Now Paying Meth, Cocaine Users to Stay Clean, SF Users Eligible for the Program People struggling with meth or cocaine addiction can earn up to $599 in gift cards to stay away from the stuff under a news state program, and San Francisco is one of the participating counties.
SF News Everything You Need To Know About SF's Heroin Addiction Epidemic Every conversation about San Francisco's homeless problem needs to include an understanding of the growing injection drug problem that's affecting not only our city, but many around the nation in recent years. Addiction,
SF News Prince's Potential Addiction Doctor Speaks Out As Doctor's Son Could Face Charges The story about a "life-saving mission" by a Bay Area opioid addiction specialist who was intending to treat Prince just one day prior to his death has grown, with the New York Times
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Mill Valley Addiction Specialist Was Scheduled To Treat Prince Before His Death Though the toxicology report has yet to be completed in the untimely death of Prince two weeks ago, a new source is confirming that the singer did in fact have a serious opioid
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: He's Got Eggs, Knows How To Use Them "One Hard-Boiled Egg" by Erik Wilson.
SF News Video: Man Smoking Crack On The N Judah The folks at Uptown Almanac bring our attention to a video of a gentlemen taking candid pulls from his crack (presumably it's crack, since marijuana emits a stench that, by comparison, lingers in
SF News Fry's VP Swipes $65M to Pay Gambling Debts Ausaf Umar Siddiqui, a Fry's Electronics VP and Palo Alto resident, is being accused of stealing around $65 million in company funds to pay gambling debts. According to reports, Siddiqui is "accused of
