It seems like some legislators in Sacramento do not realize or do not want to acknowledge the severity of the drug overdose crisis in cities like San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles. These were the jurisdictions included in gay state Senator Scott Wiener s (D-San Francisco) pilot safe consumption site legislation, Senate Bill 57, which earlier this month was punted to 2022. Wiener has been trying to get this bill passed for years, and even with a supermajority of Democratic lawmakers in Sacramento, he can t get it done. Meanwhile, overdose deaths in the city continue to flummox officials, demonstrating the urgency for this type of program. The San Francisco Chronicle reported in May that there were more than 700 drug overdose deaths in the city in 2020, eclipsing 257 deaths here from COVID-19. During the first four months of this year, there were 252 accidental overdose deaths. The Chronicle reported this week that there has been a slight dip in the number of overdose deaths sinc
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