The biggest killer of San Franciscans in 2020, by far, was drug overdoses. We will end 2020 w close to 700 overdoses, nearly 3x deaths of 2 years ago. Nearly 2 a day. There was mostly silence or business usual from city departments & Room 200. This was a brutal, shameful failure
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Death & devastation from this drug crisis is everywhere you look. We grieve w families, friends & loved ones of those lost. This city can do so much better in responding--w urgency, coordinated, comprehensive strategy, but first step is acknowledging the problem & caring.
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Many parts of my district feel abandoned, & the people along with them. Residents, businesses forced to fend for themselves. I hear from them & work with them everyday. Has anyone heard from the Mayor?
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Fentanyl hit SF in 2018 hard. And deaths and devastation have shot up since. But SF hasn't done anything different for the most part. Same approach, same resources, no heightened urgency. And the results are brutal, entirely unprecedented in its deadly impact.
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There are people and organizations who do extraordinary work everyday to save lives, and they reversed more overdoses and saved more lives this year than ever before as well. But they haven't gotten the support, coordination and resources that matches the challenge we are facing.
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Of course every elected official, every Dept, should do more. I am a legislator, I can, will, & should do more too, as should others. From most, including executive branch, there seems to be no elevated urgency, coordination, focus on this, while its gotten worse at every level.
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I wish I had all the answers. I do not. I've tried to learn as much as I can & variety of strategies we need to use. But the first step is for everyone to acknowledge how bad it is, how deadly it is, how things have changed, and commit, w focus, & be relentlessness to change it.
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I've held so many hearings, passed laws, declared state of emergency, used both"Mayoral Question Times", countless meetings w Dept officials, started a Taskforce. I'll keep doing all of that & more, but problem is also operational, which as a legislator I have less control over.
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I declared a state of emergency, authored law to create safe injection sites, coauthored law to entirely revamp our behavioral health system, authored law to force public reporting of data, held many many hearings to publicly discuss our response. Currently writing more laws.
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Many many many meetings with department officials. There's no easy answers, but right now it feels like most of the city departments are not planning to do anything differently next year. I'm going to keep doing all I can to change that.
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you know the answer but you are unwilling to go there.. Just admit @chesaboudin is the problem why you're pleadings will not change the death trajectory. Chesa is your grim reaper.
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whoof. Sniffs shit out. For a safer SF.