SF News Four High School Students In Santa Rosa Overdosed This Weekend, Two of Them Fatally, Suspected Dealer Arrested Tragic news broke from Santa Rosa Sunday night, as two separate overdose incidents took the lives of two high school students and hospitalized two others, and a suspected fentanyl dealer has been arrested.
SF News Sixth Street Crackdown Seems To Be Just Merely Pushing Blight to Mission District The recent crackdown on vending and drug use along SoMa’s Sixth Street may be getting some results, but those results appear to be just moving the unsavoriness to major plazas in the Mission District.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Gets His ‘Fentanyl Emergency Ordinance’ Passed In Landslide Board Vote Mayor Lurie won a huge expansion of his powers to combat fentanyl markets and homelessness, as the Board of Supervisors approved his so-called “emergency ordinance,” which now involves a pop-up police station at the long-debated SoMa Nordstrom parking lot.
SF News Two Alleged Drug Dealers Accused of Using a Kid to Sell Their Product in the Tenderloin Two men were charged by the SF DA’s office for dealing drugs in the Tenderloin, but the unusual twist in this case is that they were reportedly using a child to perform some of their drug deals for them.
SF News Lurie Holds City Hall Rally to Push His Fentanyl Emergency Order, Which Seems to Have the Votes to Pass Mayor Lurie’s Wednesday morning rally to support his fentanyl measure had more supporters lined up onstage than it had people in attendance, but more importantly, Lurie appears to have enough SF supervisor support to pass his measure next week.
SF News San Jose Police Union Exec Gets Probation for Dealing Opioids, SF Officer Who Robbed Rite-Aid Resurfaces Two high-profile examples of Bay Area law enforcement personnel being on the wrong side of the opioid trade are back in the news, just with lighter sentencing than what law enforcement usually clamors for in the newspapers.
SF News In 2024, SF Saw Fewest Fatal Drug Overdoses In Five Years San Francisco may have turned the corner on its fentanyl overdose crisis, or at least, we saw substantially fewer overdose deaths in 2024 than in the record year of 2023, and 2024 had fewer SF overdose deaths than any year of the last five years.
SF Politics Lurie Rolls Out Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance, But Supervisors’ Dissent Already Brewing New SF Mayor Daniel Lurie introduced his "Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance" on Tuesday, but there’s already some pushback, as it hands out no-oversight money to department heads to create potential for Mohammed Nuru-type self-dealing.
SF News Supervisor Matt Dorsey Calls for 100 ‘Mass Arrests’ Every Night In Mid-Market Area The crowds of drug dealers and users along Sixth Street have SF Supervisor Matt Dorsey proposing 100 arrests every night for “drug-related lawlessness,” though we clearly do not have the police officers and jail capacity to follow through with this.
SF News Is Sixth Street Worse Than It's Ever Been? San Francisco's Sixth Street, two blocks of it anyway, has been a circus of drug use and general chaos for going on four decades, if not more. But business owners and police say that it's suddenly gotten much worse.
SF News Fatal Drug Overdoses In SF May Be Declining Because Fentanyl-User Population May Be Dwindling Many people seriously addicted to fentanyl have already died in San Francisco, and those who are still alive increasingly have access to Narcan and have learned what their limits are, which experts say are both reasons why the number of fatal overdoses has declined.
SF News Feds Extradite Honduran Man Back to US to Face Tenderloin Fentanyl-Dealing Charges A 25-year-old Honduran national who moved to Oakland and allegedly dealt some pretty large volumes of fentanyl fled back to Honduras when a federal grand jury indicted him last year, but he was arrested and extradited back this week to face trial.
SF Politics With November’s Prop 36, California Voters Could Effectively Undo the Infamous Prop 47 Property Crime Law California's 2014 law known as Prop 47 is often blamed for unleashing crime, homelessness, and the fentanyl crisis, and voters will have a chance to toughen up its under-$950 misdemeanor theft threshold with the new state measure Prop 36.
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 Two Alaska Residents Arrested With a Whole Lot of Meth and Fentanyl In Sonoma County It was late Sunday night when a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy came upon a pickup truck with a towing trailer pulled over on a roadside in Petaluma with the driver slumped over the wheel.
SF News SF DPH Busting Out Drag Queens In Latest Drug Overdose Prevention Campaign The SF Department of Public Health’s latest effort to prevent drug overdoses is employing local drag queens Kochina Rude and Nicki Jizz to lead a month-long outreach campaign to distribute fentanyl testing strips and teach people how to administer Narcan.
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 News SFPD Will Try Out New Device That Drug Tests People's Saliva for Fentanyl The San Francisco Police Department will be the first department in the nation to pilot-test a new device that checks suspects’ saliva to see if they’ve been using fentanyl.
SF News SF Supervisors Approve Mayor Breed’s Plan to Shut Down Tenderloin Corner Stores at Midnight Convenience stores in a 20-block area of the Tenderloin will not be allowed to stay open between midnight and 5 am for the next two years, as City Hall says those corner stores “attract significant nighttime drug activity."
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 Code Tenderloin ‘Night Navigation’ Teams Out There Doling Out 300 Addiction Medications Per Month While Mayor Breed’s ballyhooed Tenderloin drug crackdown is pretty much failing to get anyone into treatment, a Code Tenderloin night program is getting drug addiction treatment to hundreds every month.
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 Newsom Says Highway Patrol Has Seized 42 Pounds of Fentanyl In the Tenderloin Alone This Past Year One year into Governor Newsom sending California Highway Patrol officers into SF in a fentanyl crackdown, he’s touting that they’ve seized 42 pounds of fentanyl just in the Tenderloin, and insists that crime is down significantly in SF.
SF News Sup. Dorsey Demands Report on ‘Drug Tourism,’ Seems to Be Itching For Crackdown District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey has a hunch that people are coming from out of town to buy or sell illegal drugs in SF, and is asking the City Controller for an analysis of the home addresses of those arrested to see how many are from other countries.
SF News Prolific Honduran Fentanyl Dealer Based In Oakland Being Kept Behind Bars Now After Multiple Arrests, Releases A Honduran national who had been arrested multiple times by law enforcement in recent years, and was on pretrial release for drug charges from 2022, has now been ordered to stay in federal custody pending his trial on new charges.
