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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@chesaboudin, who won't prosecute drug dealers, resulting in cheap fent and meth, which further feeds addiction.6 replies 2 retweets 75 likes -
Prohibition deters addicts from seeking the help they need and allows for dealers cutting drugs with contaminants and cheaper substances which directly leads to overdoses
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SF basically allows both use and sale of any drug. Even with that decriminalization, our addicts still don't seek the help they need. Instead, they directly seek out meth and fent because those are cheap and powerful. The ODs are a result of people trying to max out their high.
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Decriminalization comes up short, full legalization is necessary to ensure that all users can purchase pure products of a known potency from a medical professional who can advise on safe use, for many their drug use is a coping mechanism for problems which they can get no help
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The failure of elected leaders to provide basic necessities (food, shelter, healthcare) to the most marginal members of society will continue to leave people looking for their own answers
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Um yeah but no. We have a Covid hotel program. When people go inside and get the basic necessities (food, shelter, healthcare), their ODs climb.
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The climbing OD rates have to do with A: OD rates are climbing due to fentanyl. B: Isolation exacerbated by COVID. ODs are not caused by getting basic needs met. People getting their needs met helps to heal all kinds of malady.
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