SF News As Drug Overdoses Hit All-Time High, Mayor Breed Proposes New Street Response Team San Francisco has seen drug overdoses skyrocket over the past year — a statistic only made worse by the pandemic. To address the crisis, Mayor Breed announced plans to create a new Street Overdose Response Team (SORT) to mitigate the number of future drug-related deaths.
SF News Tenderloin Police Seized Four Times as Much Fentanyl From the Streets In 2020 As In 2019 You may have heard this grim statistic already: 713 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco in 2020, mostly from fentanyl, and that's nearly triple the number of people who died from COVID here last year.
SF News SF Saw Triple the Number of Overdose Deaths Than COVID-19 Deaths in 2020 Fentanyl is killing far more San Franciscans than coronavirus, according to a new report from the city’s Chief Medical Examiner.
SF News Report: Pandemic Leads To Epidemic of Fentanyl Overdoses In SF The opioid crisis rages on in San Francisco's Tenderloin District and elsewhere across the Bay Area, despite being overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic in the last five months.
SF News Fatal Fentanyl Overdose Spike Prompts SROs To Train Residents to Revive People With an estimated 30 percent of fentanyl overdoses taking places in SROs, Mayor Breed sets aside a few hundred grand to train residential hotel staff and tenants to properly administer Narcan.
SF News Drug Overdoses At Berkeley Bathhouse Leave One Dead and One Hospitalized One man is dead and another was seriously injured following apparent drug overdoses Friday at the gay bathhouse Steamworks in Berkeley.
SF News Spike In Fentanyl Potency In SF In June Led To 10 Deaths; Nonprofit Is Helping Reverse Overdoses While still dwarfed by numbers on the East Coast, the number of people overdosing on fentanyl in San Francisco has been on the rise — and one local nonprofit has helped distribute Narcan kits, giving people on the street more means to save each other from overdoses.
Arts & Entertainment Prince's Death Likely Caused By Counterfeit Pills Containing Fentanyl When Prince's autopsy concluded that the artist accidentally overdosed on the powerful painkiller fentanyl, questions were raised as to how he got his hands on a drug 50 times more potent than heroin
SF News Prince Died Of Accidental Fentanyl Overdose, According To Autopsy The long-awaited results of Prince's autopsy were released by Minnesota officials on Thursday, and the official cause of death is an accidental overdose of self-administered fentanyl, as the New York Times reports. Multiple
SF News Counterfeit Painkillers And Xanax Laced With Fentanyl Linked To More Deaths (And Hundreds Of Near-Deaths) Last year we reported on the spate of counterfeit Xanax hitting the streets of San Francisco which was actually fentanyl and led to the deaths of three friends in one house, aged 20
