News Overdose death toll in S.F. surpasses 500 people this year amid fentanyl-fueled drug crisis

[thegreenhand]

Overdose death toll in S.F. surpasses 500 people this year amid fentanyl-fueled drug crisis​

Nora Mishanec
SF Chronicle
23 Nov 2022

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The death toll from known accidental overdoses in San Francisco surpassed 500 on Tuesday as the city struggles to confront a fentanyl-fueled drug crisis that has killed thousands over the past five years.

The city is on track to record nearly as many overdose deaths as last year, when at least 625 people died from drug use, many of them in San Francisco’s beleaguered Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods. The tallies, while high, represent a slight decrease from 2020, when the pandemic’s upheaval pushed drug deaths to their all-time peak at 711 fatalities.

A total of 501 people had died of accidental overdoses citywide in 2022 as of Tuesday, when the medical examiner’s office released its most recent figures. The Chronicle is tracking the deaths to shed light on the increasingly deadly epidemic that has killed more city residents than COVID-19.

 

[thegreenhand]

The Chronicle is tracking the deaths to shed light on the increasingly deadly epidemic that has killed more city residents than COVID-19.

*unprecendented overdose crisis in the city*

"hey guys let's make sure to shamelessly plug our own reporting on this topic, keep those clicks rolling in"

 

[fastandbulbous]

The crisis is due to governments the world over saying unprecidented increase is due to fentanyl. While technically correct, it leaves out that the baseline cause is due to treating medical issues with punative legal sanctions.
If it was seen purely as a medical issue, governments could have made painkillers available for all, through govt sanctioned outlets. Then there would be no rational for cutting a drug with a more powerful one, as happens due to them being a) illegal and b) due to legal sanctions, a licence to print money, by dealers.

 

[RUC4]

So many of our major cities (especially in the West) are circling the drain because of the leftist, super liberals running the show.

I'm in full support of legalizing all "drugs", or whatever they are calling drugs, but I'm not in full support of what's happening in SF and Portland namely. People are openly using drugs in the downtown areas. They are also overdosing, getting sick, passing out, shitting and pissing in plain view. People are afraid to let their children walk to school because of what they might see on the way. Public areas, especially the city buildings like jail and hospitals, etc, need to be safe and accessible to All members of the city, including children.

I think there are more factors at play here in SF. There are socioeconomic issues that lead these people onto the streets and on drugs.