#fentanyl-crisis

#fentanyl-crisis

A vacant city-owned warehouse is going to become the drunk tank for people on drugs, as arresting people and trying to sober them up is Mayor Lurie's latest attempt to cut down on drug use on San Francisco streets. Now ten months in office, SF Mayor Daniel Lurie has tried a number of strategies to combat San Francisco's fentanyl scourge.

In 2020, Amy Neville found her 14-year-old son Alexander dead in his bedroom after taking a fake oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl, bought from a drug dealer on Snapchat.

The United States won't be able to solve the fentanyl crisis without help from its greatest rival. China is the world's largest supplier of the chemicals that drug smugglers use to produce the opioid.

"Unfortunately, we get to know a lot of parents who have lost," said Michelle. The couple lost their son Micah Jr. to a fentanyl overdose in 2019.

"The bill strengthens our laws to ensure law enforcement has the right tools needed to keep our borders secure, combat transnational organized crime, and stop the flow of illegal fentanyl."

If you look past the press releases and corporate media headlines, you'll see that what's actually happening is people in active addiction are being shuffled from one block to another, arrested, jailed, and released.

The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prizes, while the New Yorker received three, recognizing distinguished journalism on topics such as the fentanyl crisis and a Trump assassination attempt.

If Narcan were suddenly to disappear from pharmacy shelves, more people would die of overdoses. Pretty simple.