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 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 Head of San Jose Police Union Charged With Dealing Copious Amounts of Fentanyl Here’s a twist in the law enforcement narrative about the fentanyl trade, as the 20-year executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association has been criminally charged for importing and distributing “thousands of opioid and other pills” including fentanyl.
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 Judge Rules Walgreens Can Be Held Liable For Overprescribing Opioids in SF, In Landmark Decision A huge win for City Attorney David Chiu, as a judge rules in the city’s favor and against Walgreens, who apparently prescribed more than 100 million opioid pills in San Francisco alone.
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.
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.
