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Astounding. as of june of 2022, 72,000. that's about five months ago, sir. you've seen this in your own hometown and you decided something needed to be done. a narcan vending machine you thought would help. tell us why. >> in our county alone we have had 50 deaths in 2021. as of this morning we're up to 43 with five pending results. our ambulance service responded to 468 overdose calls in this county alone this year. i went to a call earlier this year and a citizen had actually had the dose of narcan and had administered to a friend that had overdosed and saved his life. i got me thinking how ...

Francisco. here's nbc's jacob soboroff. [ sirens ] >> reporter: i'm with the san francisco fire department now, part of a new unit that responds toopioid overdose calls. there were more opioid overdose in san francisco than covid deaths in 2020 this is meant not just to save lives but to stop this from happening again. the city of san francisco has been hit so hard by overdose deaths, is now has a new unit devoted to harm reduction. i rode along with the captain of the fire department and a nurse practitioner >> this is our guy >> reporter: we arrived at this stop just after a man had been rev...

Way we think about this. i think more people are now thinking of it as a disease and realizing it's not just like a choice that people are making. that said, i will tell you, craig, last night in dayton, i had several people come up to me and say they're still hearing, you know, friends and neighbors say to them, oh, your son, you know, doesn't deserve to be narcaned three different times, your daughter is making a choice. there is still the stigma. there is still this attitude. especially in a place like dayton where the ems teams are going out every day, on every shift they told me two or th...

And what the fire medics told me is when they go out on the overdose calls, often they see children in the home. people on the front lines call them a generation at risk. there's a lot of concern about what they have seen, what children have experienced and we spent time with that young woman in dayton who knows it all too well. >> hi, baby girl. >> reporter: tori brinkman has always been a survivor, born 15 weeks early, a tiny pound and a half. and that was just the beginning of her struggle. for the first ten years of her life, she lived with a mother addicted to heroin. their history togeth...

Can you check what size you have? we are going to get you some sn shoe. send us as many as you can. i hear this every single day, whether it's a small local restaurant, coffee shop, to amazon. we get flyers. we get e-mails, phone calls. we need people. >> okay. what do we remember about work shift? >> we usually get someone employed within three days. we have had someone start within one day. that's how fast refuges are able to get impleemployed. >> reporter: we spoke with locals about the struggle to find jobs because of drugs. >> right now, heroin and meth is one of the biggest problems. >> ...