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Accidental drug overdose deaths continue to torment San Francisco, according to data released Tuesday by the city medical examiner’s office. While June saw the lowest monthly number of overdose deaths this year, 54, in July it climbed back up to 71. With 473 overdose deaths this year, San Francisco is on track to surpass its highest recorded number of overdose deaths in a calendar year — 725 in 2020.
The new SF drug dealing and use crackdown has now yielded 45 arrests according to data presented by SFPD, and of those, police say only three of them live in San Francisco.
Supervisors slam S.F. for failing to provide drug treatment on demand amid overdose crisis FacebookTwitterEmail Paramedics work to revive an overdose victim in the Tenderloin in San Francisco on Saturday, July 11, 2020. New numbers from the medical examiner's office show drug overdoses this year in San Francisco spiking even more than previously known. Now one of two bodies brought to the medical examiner's office died of a drug overdose.Nick Otto / Special to The Chronicle As San Francisco struggles to stem an unprecedented overdose epidemic, elected officials, advocates and people in recove...
With overdoses spiking, San Francisco's leaders are trying to force the city into action FacebookTwitterEmail Above: Kayla Crenshaw of Epiphany Center, which provides drug treatment to women, shows donated baby clothes to Michele Nguyen and daughter Annabelle; both women graduated from the program and said the city’s system to get into treatment is challenging. Below: James Dixon, HealthRight 360’s director of residential services, leads a staff meeting at the treatment program.Mallory Moench / The Chronicle San Francisco has suffered from a shortage of drug treatment beds for years, but...