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In 2024, SF Saw Fewest Fatal Drug Overdoses In Five Years

San Francisco may have turned the corner on its fentanyl overdose crisis, or at least, we saw substantially fewer overdose deaths in 2024 than in the record year of 2023, and 2024 had fewer SF overdose deaths than any year of the last five years.

Lurie Rolls Out Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance, But Supervisors’ Dissent Already Brewing

New SF Mayor Daniel Lurie introduced his "Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance" on Tuesday, but there’s already some pushback, as it hands out no-oversight money to department heads to create potential for Mohammed Nuru-type self-dealing.

Supervisor Matt Dorsey Calls for 100 ‘Mass Arrests’ Every Night In Mid-Market Area

The crowds of drug dealers and users along Sixth Street have SF Supervisor Matt Dorsey proposing 100 arrests every night for “drug-related lawlessness,” though we clearly do not have the police officers and jail capacity to follow through with this.

Is Sixth Street Worse Than It's Ever Been?

San Francisco's Sixth Street, two blocks of it anyway, has been a circus of drug use and general chaos for going on four decades, if not more. But business owners and police say that it's suddenly gotten much worse.

Fatal Drug Overdoses In SF May Be Declining Because Fentanyl-User Population May Be Dwindling

Many people seriously addicted to fentanyl have already died in San Francisco, and those who are still alive increasingly have access to Narcan and have learned what their limits are, which experts say are both reasons why the number of fatal overdoses has declined.

Feds Extradite Honduran Man Back to US to Face Tenderloin Fentanyl-Dealing Charges

A 25-year-old Honduran national who moved to Oakland and allegedly dealt some pretty large volumes of fentanyl fled back to Honduras when a federal grand jury indicted him last year, but he was arrested and extradited back this week to face trial.

With November’s Prop 36, California Voters Could Effectively Undo the Infamous Prop 47 Property Crime Law

California's 2014 law known as Prop 47 is often blamed for unleashing crime, homelessness, and the fentanyl crisis, and voters will have a chance to toughen up its under-$950 misdemeanor theft threshold with the new state measure Prop 36.

SF Sees Lowest Number of Overdose Deaths In a Single Month Since 2020

It's a promising sign for the ongoing fentanyl crisis in San Francisco, as for the second month in a row the city counted a decreasing number of unintentional drug overdose deaths.

Two Alaska Residents Arrested With a Whole Lot of Meth and Fentanyl In Sonoma County

It was late Sunday night when a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy came upon a pickup truck with a towing trailer pulled over on a roadside in Petaluma with the driver slumped over the wheel.

SF DPH Busting Out Drag Queens In Latest Drug Overdose Prevention Campaign

The SF Department of Public Health’s latest effort to prevent drug overdoses is employing local drag queens Kochina Rude and Nicki Jizz to lead a month-long outreach campaign to distribute fentanyl testing strips and teach people how to administer Narcan.

Doctors and Users Explain Why Fentanyl Users Are Hunched Over So Often

We’ve all observed the tell-tale sign that someone is high on fentanyl in that they’re bent over and frozen in the so-called “fentanyl fold,” and a new Chronicle report speaks to medical experts and users about why this happens.

SFPD Will Try Out New Device That Drug Tests People's Saliva for Fentanyl

The San Francisco Police Department will be the first department in the nation to pilot-test a new device that checks suspects’ saliva to see if they’ve been using fentanyl.

SF Supervisors Approve Mayor Breed’s Plan to Shut Down Tenderloin Corner Stores at Midnight

Convenience stores in a 20-block area of the Tenderloin will not be allowed to stay open between midnight and 5 am for the next two years, as City Hall says those corner stores “attract significant nighttime drug activity."

Walgreens Now Selling Cheaper Generic Narcan Over the Counter, and It’s Already Available

The national pharmacy chain Walgreens has made its generic version of Narcan available over the counter, and it's $10 cheaper than name-brand Narcan, and apparently already available at a few SF stores.

Code Tenderloin ‘Night Navigation’ Teams Out There Doling Out 300 Addiction Medications Per Month

While Mayor Breed’s ballyhooed Tenderloin drug crackdown is pretty much failing to get anyone into treatment, a Code Tenderloin night program is getting drug addiction treatment to hundreds every month.

Four People, Including Two Housemates, Now Charged With Murder In Fentanyl-Overdose Death of San Jose Toddler

Two alleged drug dealers have now been charged with murder in connection with the August 2023 death of 18-month-old Winter Rayo, whose parents were also charged with murder.

Newsom Says Highway Patrol Has Seized 42 Pounds of Fentanyl In the Tenderloin Alone This Past Year

One year into Governor Newsom sending California Highway Patrol officers into SF in a fentanyl crackdown, he’s touting that they’ve seized 42 pounds of fentanyl just in the Tenderloin, and insists that crime is down significantly in SF.

Sup. Dorsey Demands Report on ‘Drug Tourism,’ Seems to Be Itching For Crackdown

District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey has a hunch that people are coming from out of town to buy or sell illegal drugs in SF, and is asking the City Controller for an analysis of the home addresses of those arrested to see how many are from other countries.

Prolific Honduran Fentanyl Dealer Based In Oakland Being Kept Behind Bars Now After Multiple Arrests, Releases

A Honduran national who had been arrested multiple times by law enforcement in recent years, and was on pretrial release for drug charges from 2022, has now been ordered to stay in federal custody pending his trial on new charges.

Final Grim Tally Arrives: SF Had Highest-Ever 806 Fatal Drug Overdoses in 2023

We already knew that 2023 would be the deadliest year ever for drug overdoses in SF with nearly a month left to go in the year, but the Medical Examiner’s office now acknowledges we broke the previous record 2020 death toll by nearly 100.

SFPD Says It Has Made Over 900 Arrests for Narcotics Sales Since May

The mayor's office and the SFPD put out new numbers this week documenting the success, they say, of efforts to crack down on open-air drug sales in and around the Tenderloin and SoMa.

So-Called ‘Speedball’ Mixtures of Fentanyl and Stimulants Now Account for Most SF Overdose Deaths

There’s a new version of the old ‘speedball’ that now substitutes fentanyl for heroin, and the upper/downer mix now accounts for most SF overdose deaths, though many of those victims may just not have known there was fentanyl in their product.

Gonzo Journalist Interviews Serial Car Burglar In SF, Draws Direct Line Between Fentanyl and 24th Street Vendors

You may be familiar with gonzo YouTube journalist Andrew Callaghan and his "Channel 5" interviews with everyone from the Q Shaman, to anti-vaxxers, and Phish fans. Well, he just spent some time in San Francisco, and his footage is both sensational and enlightening.

Day Around the Bay: San Jose Couple Charged In Toddler's Fentanyl Death

Santa Clara County has its first case of parents being charged in the fentanyl-related death of a small child; the SFPD is stepping up its presence in Union Square; and Taylor Swift's Eras Tour movie is screening at the Castro Theatre next month.

Gavin Newsom Joins Chorus of Lawmakers Calling for Fentanyl Dealers to Be Charged With Murder For Overdoses

In announcing a new joint task force between the state and the City of San Francisco, Governor Newsom and Mayor Breed vow that they’ll start having fentanyl dealers charged with murder when a user dies from an accidental overdose.