San Francisco Hits Record Overdose Deaths; 3 per Day from Fentanyl

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San Francisco Hits Record Overdose Deaths; 3 per Day from Fentanyl
 
 
JOEL B. POLLAK19 Sep 20231,597
 
San Francisco recorded more overdose deaths in August 2023 than in any other month since records started being kept in 2020, a sign of the city’s continuing struggles with drug abuse and the opioid pandemic on its streets.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported:

The number of overdose deaths in San Francisco jumped up yet again in August — to 84 from 74 in July — tying January as the single deadliest month for overdoses since the city started tracking these deaths in the beginning of 2020.

At the current pace, San Francisco is on track to see 845 overdose fatalities this year, topping 2020’s 725 deaths.


The numbers underscore how San Francisco officials continue to struggle to address the devastation of fentanyl on the city’s streets — a crisis that Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax called “distressing.” The last figures indicate people are dying from fentanyl overdoses at a rate of nearly three people a day.

The record number of overdose deaths comes despite some effort by city and state officials to control the fentanyl scourge.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/19/san-francisco-hits-record-overdose-deaths-3-per-day-from-fentanyl/

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Outside Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco at Mission and 7th. Rotting leg and crack pipe.

4:10 PM · Oct 26, 2023

[DefiantMassRINO]

It is sad that apathetic liberal politians are allowing this human suffering to perpetuate.

[Smokin Joe]

With just some 25,000 IV drug users in San Francisco, it will only take 23 years for the existing ones to kill themselves off at that rate. (That doesn't account for those who end up in rehab or new users in that time frame, nor does it account for death from other causes. )