SF News Open Drug Use at Breed’s Tenderloin Linkage Center Divides Addiction Experts Media reports confirm that people are allowed to use drugs at the Tenderloin Linkage Center, which some recovery experts applaud, and others say is “like trying to have an AA meeting in a bar.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stanford Professors Sue University Over Fentanyl Death of Son Two Stanford professors whose son died in early 2020 of an accidental fentanyl overdose on campus are now suing the school, a pipe bomb scare led to evacuations in Oakland, and ambulances in CA are again being made to wait outside ERs due to pandemic crowding.
SF News SF Overdose Deaths Declined Slightly In 2021, Marking Hopeful Turning Point Overdose deaths from fentanyl and other drugs in San Francisco went down for the first time in three years according to new data for 2021, marking what experts hope is a leveling off in accidental drug deaths thanks to public-health interventions.
SF News 29-Year-Old Santa Rosa Woman Who Sold Fentanyl That Killed a Father and Infant Son Sentenced to Six Years A 29-year-old woman who admitted to procuring fentanyl in San Francisco for sale in Santa Rosa, and whose supply ultimately killed a 29-year-old man and his son two years ago, pleaded guilty and was sentenced Wednesday to 77 months in jail.
SF News 344 Accidental Overdose Deaths Happened In SF So Far in 2021, Most of Those From Fentanyl The opioid crisis persists in San Francisco, and a new report confirms how dire the situation, with 344 accidental overdose deaths so far this year, and thousands of lives likely saved by Narcan.
SF News SFPD On Track to Seize Four Times More Fentanyl This Year Than Last, But It May Make Little Impact on Supply A UCSF expert says that interrupting the supply chain for illegal fentanyl, most of which comes out of Mexico, is far more difficult than just busting dealers and seizing their inventory.
SF Politics San Francisco Plans to Flood Mid-Market and Tenderloin With Cops and Community Ambassadors In Response to Chaos With financial help from UC Hastings — who last year sued the city over the homeless problem in the neighborhood — San Francisco is launching a new initiative aimed at taming the chaos and open-air drug market of the Tenderloin and Mid-Market.
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 Four CHP Officers, Three Others Hospitalized For Fentanyl Exposure Following Golden Gate Crash A reportedly impaired driver crashed into a median divider near the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza on Sunday morning, and the incident — apparently due to some quantity of fentanyl inside the vehicle — led to seven people being hospitalized for fentanyl exposure.
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 Santa Clara Sees Spike in Fentanyl Overdoses Under Shelter-In-Place Fake oxy and percocet sold on Snapchat have contributed to a tripling of fentanyl overdoses in Santa Clara County, and prosecutors are starting to charge dealers with murder.
SF News Stanford Student Who Died In Fraternity House Had Accidental Fentanyl Overdose The death of a 19-year-old Stanford student last month is being blamed on accidental fentanyl toxicity, according to a new report from the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office.
SF News Amid Spike In Fentanyl Deaths, SF Man Sentenced In Fentanyl-Selling Case After going on the lam with his wife in Mexico, getting caught, and pleading guilty in federal court last July to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, a San Francisco man was sentenced Friday to 200 months (16 and a half years) in jail.
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 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
