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Opioid Epidemic

In December 2023, hundreds of people would gather nightly at Seventh and McAllister streets in San Francisco, where illegal activity ranging from drug use to the sale of stolen goods would occur.

San Francisco

Can one man help wipe out S.F.’s drug markets? City officials want to find out

San Francisco officials want to hire a professor to analyze the city open air drug markets...

A member of Episcopal Community Services picks up boxes of Narcan she used to administer on a person who had overdosed in the Central SoMa neighborhood last June. The person survived.

Drug overdose deaths rising again in S.F. after months of declines

Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to expedite a lease agreement to open a new behavioral health care facility at 822 Geary St.

S.F. drug crisis: Here’s the first project Mayor Daniel Lurie plans to speed up with his new powers

San Francisco plans to open an outdoor triage center near Sixth Street, which has become a hot spot for drug use, in an effort to crack down on the illicit drug market.

Infamous Nordstrom parking lot to serve as S.F. police command center for Sixth Street drug market

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a rally in support of his fentanyl state of emergency ordinance ahead of a hearing at the Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Finance Committee in San Francisco on Jan. 29.

Mayor Daniel Lurie wins more power to address S.F. drugs and homelessness. What will he do with it?

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Drug overdose deaths

See data for every county in California and the U.S.

More than a million people have died from a drug overdose, with a majority of deaths driven by opioids like fentanyl. These charts show the toll in every U.S. state and county.

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