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 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 Walgreens Forced To Pay SF Record-Breaking $230 Million For Its Role In Creating Opioid Crisis Pharmacy chain Walgreens will have to pay San Francisco $230 million — the largest sum it will pay to any city — for its role in overprescribing opioids and helping create the fentanyl crisis.
SF News Walgreens and CVS Agree to $10 Billion Settlement for Opioid Overprescription, But SF Case Still Looms Walmart has also reportedly agreed to be on the hook for a $3 billion settlement, but the Walgreens settlement does not stop the case that SF City Attorney David Chiu is bringing against that pharmacy chain.
SF News SF Suing Walgreens for Creating an Opioid ‘Public Menace,’ and This Sure Changes the Whole Walgreens Discourse Could Walgreens be responsible for the very crime and drug issues they say are driving them out of San Francisco? A lawsuit from the city begs that question, and blames opioid overprescription.
Business & Tech Walgreens to Pay $7.5 Million to Two Bay Area Counties Over Phony Pharmacist The Walgreens pharmacy chain has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a case in which an employee succeeded in impersonating a pharmacist for 11 years and illegally wrote prescriptions for patients in Alameda and Santa Clara counties.
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