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A new drug could be on the streets of San Francisco - Medetomidine, or fentanyl laced with animal tranquilizer.

SF Saw Triple the Number of Overdose Deaths Than COVID-19 Deaths in 2020 Fentanyl is killing more San Franciscans than coronavirus, according to a new report from the city’s Chief Medical Examiner. COVID-19 was the leading cause of death in the US in the first week of January 2021, according to CDC data summed up by Scientific American. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) says it’s probably going to stay that way for some time, or at least, until we have a new U.S. presid...

699 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco last year compared to 235 from COVID-19 FacebookTwitterEmail In this file photo from Thursday, May 10, 2018, a used syringe is shown on a sidewalk in San Francisco.Jeff Chiu / Associated Press San Francisco saw nearly three times as many people die from drug overdoses than from the coronavirus last year, a staggering data point that highlights the citys dire drug epidemic fueled by the powerful painkiller fentanyl. A record 699 people died of o...