Two weeks after San Francisco’s only medical and social service organization built by and for sex workers quietly announced that it’s shutting its doors, questions about how this hole in the city’s safety net will be filled are still unanswered.
The medical director overseeing San Francisco's health programs for the city's homeless population compared their "catastrophic" number of opioid deaths to the 1990s AIDS epidemic during testimony Tuesday in a bellwether federal trial over claims Walgreens, Allergan, Teva and Anda illegally fueled the public health crisis.