SF News Victoria Jones, Daughter of Tommy Lee Jones, Died of Cocaine Overdose at SF Hotel The cause of death has been confirmed for Tommy Lee Jones's 34-year-old daughter, who was found dead at the Fairmont Hotel the night of New Year's Eve.
SF News 22-Year-Old Charged With Murder for Allegedly Selling Fentanyl to Two Santa Rosa Teens Who Fatally OD'd Two Santa Rosa teens died from overdoses, and two more were hospitalized in February after ingesting what they thought was cocaine but "was most likely fentanyl." The 22-year-old who sold it to them is now facing murder charges.
SF News SF Overdose Deaths Back on the Rise, After an Encouraging Decline in 2024 The sharp decline in San Francisco overdose deaths in 2024 appears to be reversing itself in 2025, and the infusion of new synthetic opioids into the market has this year on pace to be SF’s deadliest year for overdoses since, well, 2023.
SF News New Synthetic Drug Shows Up On SF Streets, Is Linked to Overdose Death Another new synthetic drug that is used as a veterinary tranquilizer, medetomidine, showed up in the autopsy of a recent overdose victim in San Francisco, though it does not yet appear prevalent in the local drug supply.
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 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 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 Cause of Death Determined In Case of East Bay Teen Found Dead In San Francisco Driveway The city medical examiner has made a determination in the cause of death of 15-year-old Jázmin Pellegrini, who was found dead in the driveway of a home in San Francisco's Oceanview neighborhood in April.
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 Final Grim Tally Arrives: SF Had Highest-Ever 806 Fatal Drug Overdoses in 2023 We already knew that 2023 would be the deadliest year ever for drug overdoses in SF with nearly a month left to go in the year, but the Medical Examiner’s office now acknowledges we broke the previous record 2020 death toll by nearly 100.
SF News So-Called ‘Speedball’ Mixtures of Fentanyl and Stimulants Now Account for Most SF Overdose Deaths There’s a new version of the old ‘speedball’ that now substitutes fentanyl for heroin, and the upper/downer mix now accounts for most SF overdose deaths, though many of those victims may just not have known there was fentanyl in their product.
SF News First Ever Fentanyl Dealer Charged With Murder In California Gets Sentenced to 15 Years In Prison In what may be the shape of things to come, a 21-year-old Placer County man was sentenced to 15 years on a second-degree murder charge Tuesday, the first time a fentanyl provider has been sentenced for murder in the state of California.
SF News August Ties Record Number of SF Overdose Deaths, With Three Deaths Per Day on Average More policing and more arrests do not seem to be making a dent in the San Francisco opioid overdose crisis, as the month of August’s 84 fatalities ties the record for accidental overdose deaths in the city.
SF News July Was Second-Deadliest Month Yet For SF Overdoses, With 71 Dead, Mostly From Fentanyl It’s now almost a foregone conclusion that 2023 will be the deadliest year on record for San Francisco overdoses, as a brief decline in accidental overdoses in SF has unfortunately reversed with 71 overdose deaths recorded in the month of July.
SF News Two New Forms of Fentanyl, Including Tranq, Turning Up More In SF Overdoses The SF fentanyl supply is getting laced with new varieties of the drug, like the potentially five times more powerful drug fluorofentanyl, and the veterinary tranquilizer with the street name “tranq.”
SF News San Francisco Sees Drop in Accidental Overdose Deaths in June, But Fentanyl Remains a Looming Threat June saw the second-lowest number of fatal overdoses by month this year, but as fentanyl infiltrates street drugs, San Francisco could still hit a record number of drug-related ODs by the end of the year.
SF News With Over 200 Overdose Deaths In SF So Far This Year, 2023 May Be the Worst Year Yet For the Fentanyl Crisis The number of accidental overdose deaths in San Francisco, most of them caused by fentanyl, has risen sharply in the first quarter of 2023 — with 200 deaths so far this year, up from 142 in the same period last year.
SF News Five Hospitalized For ODs on Christmas After Reportedly Doing Contaminated Cocaine at Japantown Residence Five people were hospitalized, two of them in critical condition, after they all apparently suffered accidental overdoses inside a residence on Japantown's main drag on Christmas Day.
SF News Narcan Everywhere: Haney Introduces Bill To Require Narcan In Bars, Gas Stations, Libraries, SROs Assemblymember Matt Haney is proposing a bill that would require bars, gas stations, libraries and SROs to stock the opioid overdose reversal medication Narcan, though that state would pay for the supply.
SF News SF Has Seen More Than 500 Overdoses This Year, Though That’s Down From 2020 and 2021 The overdose death count in San Francisco has declined since the height of the pandemic, but we’re still one of the most affected cities in the nation, behind Houston and Philadelphia.
SF News 50 People Per Month Have Died of Drug Overdoses In SF This Year, and Most Were Not In the Tenderloin Accidental overdose deaths in San Francisco, largely driven by the proliferation of fentanyl, continue to decline slightly in number from a peak in 2020. However they still remain at crisis levels, according to a new report from the city's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME).
SF News Four People OD'd at the 24th & Mission BART Plaza Monday; Supervisor Says Health Department Should Do More SFFD paramedics responded to the 24th and Mission BART plaza Monday around 5:30 p.m. after four individuals simultaneously suffered from fentanyl overdoses.
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 Marin Kids End Up In Hospital After 'Triple C' Overdose Look out, Florida! Your dominance in the "idiotically named drug overdose" headline race is under threat this week, after reports that three teens in tony Marin County have overdosed on a drug known
SF News 16 Kids Hospitalized In Yet Another Cow Palace Rave OD Situation In further party-casualty news from this past weekend, sixteen people were taken to the hospital after apparent drug overdoses during another Cow Palace dance music fest on Friday night. Two remained in critical
