“San Francisco’s [fentanyl] overdose death rate is higher than West Virginia, the state with the most severe crisis, and three times the rates of New York and Los Angeles“https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/us/fentanyl-overdoses-san-francisco.html …
“At the height of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco in the early 1990s, the disease was killing 33 people a week. Overdoses killed an average of about 16 people a week in San Francisco the first three months of this year.”
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“The Tenderloin police precinct seized 5,449 grams of fentanyl in 2020, four times more than the previous year. In this compact neighborhood of 50 square blocks, it was enough, in theory, to kill 2.7 million people.”
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San Francisco funded “more than 50,000 doses of naloxone last year, said Kristen Marshall, the project manager. About 4,300 overdoses were reversed using the lifesaving drug, she said.” Compared to the 713 deaths.
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