441 people died from drug overdose in 2019, based on #s released today. That's more than 1 a day, a massive, devastating increase, up from 259 deaths in 2018.
Each one of these people had friends, family, a life needlessly cut short. We are thinking of them, and mourn for them.
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This is the largest single year increase in fatal drug overdoses in San Francisco, ever. It was a huge increase from 2019, which already a huge increase from prior years. This is the City's most deadly epidemic.
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The number of people who died would be higher if it weren't for heroic work that orgs, outreach workers, & often users themselves reversed over 2600 overdoses. We have to support them, give them tools to save lives. They are doing incredible work, but outmatched by this crisis
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I'm devastated, saddened and furious by this, we all should be. This is happening right in front of our eyes, with people dying every single day, mostly in the TL and SOMA. Nothing is killing this many people prematurely in San Francisco.
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The city clearly has the capacity to deploy resources, take emergency action when faced with deadly public health crisis. It is unimaginable & unacceptable that our city departments have failed to move with similar seriousness and urgency when it has come to this drug epidemic
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This report shows that there were actually less people entering substance use treatment each year over the past 5 years, at the same time that fatal overdoses were skyrocketing. Treatment was also down in 2019. That's brutal, dangerous and deadly.
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The drug crisis is also closely connected to poverty and systemic racism. Males, persons aged 50 to 59 years, and Black/African Americans had the highest rates of overdose mortality.
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A lot of the growth is connected to the growth of fentanyl. We have to get this off our streets, and that requires a coordinated strategy. People are selling deadly poison, it's brutally dangerous and unacceptable to have deadly drugs so easily and widely available on our streets
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Replying to @MattHaneySF
What role does law enforcement and prosecution play?
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An essential part of it. They need to work together, along with other departments, to stop the blatant selling of deadly drugs so openly and dangerously on our streets.
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This is very refreshing to hear, Matt.
Has @SFDAOffice received this memo? We can’t just pay @chesaboudin 400k to set up new websites to foster his own sense of self importance and ethereal political theories while overdoses skyrocket unabated.
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Replying to @left_on_alpha @MattHaneySF and
I get this feeling he didn’t expect to win like Trump and realizes he doesn’t know what the hell he is doing.
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Replying to @left_on_alpha @MattHaneySF and
You lost him when you start talking about his buddy Chesa.
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