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A dangerous chemical called xylazine is being mixed into fentanyl across the U.S., but who's doing it and why is a mystery. The government still doesn't identify and track new drug threats.
We fully support the San Francisco AIDS Foundation’s expressed interest in helping to run an overdose prevention center, but we trhink the agency stumbled with recent messaging equating needles to life and police to death.
"People who struggle with drug use shouldn’t have to hide in dark places to avoid having their health issues confronted with shame and judgment."
Mayor London Breed talked about getting tougher on drug dealers and users, while quietly making way for privately-funded safe injection sites.
Even with the success of New York City’s overdose prevention center, the only government-sanctioned program operating in this country, such facilities are proving a tough sell over concerns they encourage drug use, crime and neighborhood blight.