SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Overdose Deaths Hit Promising New Low The number of people who died in October in SF from accidental drug overdoses was lower than at any point in the last several years; incumbent SF school board president Matt Alexander appears to be keeping his job; and Muni fare inspectors are back out in full force.
SF News Murder Charge Dropped for One Housemate In Overdose Death of San Jose Toddler, Trial Proceeding for Two Others A judge has ruled that a trial can proceed against two men who were charged, along with two others, in connection with the August 2023 death of a toddler due to fentanyl exposure.
SF News SF Sees Lowest Number of Overdose Deaths In a Single Month Since 2020 It's a promising sign for the ongoing fentanyl crisis in San Francisco, as for the second month in a row the city counted a decreasing number of unintentional drug overdose deaths.
SF News Cause of Death Determined In Case of East Bay Teen Found Dead In San Francisco Driveway The city medical examiner has made a determination in the cause of death of 15-year-old Jázmin Pellegrini, who was found dead in the driveway of a home in San Francisco's Oceanview neighborhood in April.
SF News Walgreens Now Selling Cheaper Generic Narcan Over the Counter, and It’s Already Available The national pharmacy chain Walgreens has made its generic version of Narcan available over the counter, and it's $10 cheaper than name-brand Narcan, and apparently already available at a few SF stores.
SF News Four People, Including Two Housemates, Now Charged With Murder In Fentanyl-Overdose Death of San Jose Toddler Two alleged drug dealers have now been charged with murder in connection with the August 2023 death of 18-month-old Winter Rayo, whose parents were also charged with murder.
SF News Final Grim Tally Arrives: SF Had Highest-Ever 806 Fatal Drug Overdoses in 2023 We already knew that 2023 would be the deadliest year ever for drug overdoses in SF with nearly a month left to go in the year, but the Medical Examiner’s office now acknowledges we broke the previous record 2020 death toll by nearly 100.
SF News So-Called ‘Speedball’ Mixtures of Fentanyl and Stimulants Now Account for Most SF Overdose Deaths There’s a new version of the old ‘speedball’ that now substitutes fentanyl for heroin, and the upper/downer mix now accounts for most SF overdose deaths, though many of those victims may just not have known there was fentanyl in their product.
SF News Gavin Newsom Joins Chorus of Lawmakers Calling for Fentanyl Dealers to Be Charged With Murder For Overdoses In announcing a new joint task force between the state and the City of San Francisco, Governor Newsom and Mayor Breed vow that they’ll start having fentanyl dealers charged with murder when a user dies from an accidental overdose.
SF News First Ever Fentanyl Dealer Charged With Murder In California Gets Sentenced to 15 Years In Prison In what may be the shape of things to come, a 21-year-old Placer County man was sentenced to 15 years on a second-degree murder charge Tuesday, the first time a fentanyl provider has been sentenced for murder in the state of California.
SF News August Ties Record Number of SF Overdose Deaths, With Three Deaths Per Day on Average More policing and more arrests do not seem to be making a dent in the San Francisco opioid overdose crisis, as the month of August’s 84 fatalities ties the record for accidental overdose deaths in the city.
SF News July Was Second-Deadliest Month Yet For SF Overdoses, With 71 Dead, Mostly From Fentanyl It’s now almost a foregone conclusion that 2023 will be the deadliest year on record for San Francisco overdoses, as a brief decline in accidental overdoses in SF has unfortunately reversed with 71 overdose deaths recorded in the month of July.
SF News Two New Forms of Fentanyl, Including Tranq, Turning Up More In SF Overdoses The SF fentanyl supply is getting laced with new varieties of the drug, like the potentially five times more powerful drug fluorofentanyl, and the veterinary tranquilizer with the street name “tranq.”
SF News San Francisco Sees Drop in Accidental Overdose Deaths in June, But Fentanyl Remains a Looming Threat June saw the second-lowest number of fatal overdoses by month this year, but as fentanyl infiltrates street drugs, San Francisco could still hit a record number of drug-related ODs by the end of the year.
SF News San Francisco On Track To Hit Grim Record of Most Accidental Overdose Deaths This Year City data reports 268 accidental drug overdoses this year already, which is 72 more than this time last year, putting the city on track to hit a record high 800 ODs by end of 2023.
SF News With Over 200 Overdose Deaths In SF So Far This Year, 2023 May Be the Worst Year Yet For the Fentanyl Crisis The number of accidental overdose deaths in San Francisco, most of them caused by fentanyl, has risen sharply in the first quarter of 2023 — with 200 deaths so far this year, up from 142 in the same period last year.
SF News Death Involving New Street Drug 'Tranq' Confirmed In San Jose While public health officials have been warning for months now that the new street drug "tranq" is being mixed with fentanyl and causing deadly results, we now have news of a South Bay death associated with the drug.
SF Politics Safe Drug-Consumption 'Wellness Hubs' Back on the Table In SF With New Proposed Legislation San Francisco may try to follow the "New York Model" of turning a blind eye and providing some funding for "wellness" centers that allow consumption of illegal drugs under new legislation being put forward by Supervisor Hillary Ronen.
SF News Five Hospitalized For ODs on Christmas After Reportedly Doing Contaminated Cocaine at Japantown Residence Five people were hospitalized, two of them in critical condition, after they all apparently suffered accidental overdoses inside a residence on Japantown's main drag on Christmas Day.
SF News Narcan Everywhere: Haney Introduces Bill To Require Narcan In Bars, Gas Stations, Libraries, SROs Assemblymember Matt Haney is proposing a bill that would require bars, gas stations, libraries and SROs to stock the opioid overdose reversal medication Narcan, though that state would pay for the supply.
SF News Mayor Breed, Supervisors Express Their Alarm Over Baby Exposed to Fentanyl, Possibly at Playground One father's post on Nextdoor on Tuesday night set off a cascade of media coverage Wednesday about a highly sensational — and scary — incident involving a baby accidentally ingesting fentanyl, possibly at a city playground.
SF News SF Has Seen More Than 500 Overdoses This Year, Though That’s Down From 2020 and 2021 The overdose death count in San Francisco has declined since the height of the pandemic, but we’re still one of the most affected cities in the nation, behind Houston and Philadelphia.
SF News Final Tab on $22 Million Tenderloin Center: 300 Overdoses Reversed, 600 Enrolled In Government Benefits The initially much-ballyhooed Tenderloin Center will be closing almost a month earlier than planned, and the first rigorous study on its effects found it did some good, but maybe not $22 million worth of good.
SF News 50 People Per Month Have Died of Drug Overdoses In SF This Year, and Most Were Not In the Tenderloin Accidental overdose deaths in San Francisco, largely driven by the proliferation of fentanyl, continue to decline slightly in number from a peak in 2020. However they still remain at crisis levels, according to a new report from the city's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME).
SF News Four People OD'd at the 24th & Mission BART Plaza Monday; Supervisor Says Health Department Should Do More SFFD paramedics responded to the 24th and Mission BART plaza Monday around 5:30 p.m. after four individuals simultaneously suffered from fentanyl overdoses.
