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In December 2023, the city of San Francisco began testing wastewater for fentanyl, other drugs such as amphetamine, cocaine, methamphetamine, and xylazine, and naloxone. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The testing was part of a larger study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse , which was also testing wastewater in 70 other U.S. cities, and is scheduled to ...
Between January and May of this year, 275 people have died of fentanyl overdoes, according to the San Francisco medical examiner's office. During the same period in 2022, the city reported 168 ...
Mobile Crisis, or Mobile Crisis Teams (MCT), are an emergency mental health service in the United States and Canada, typically operated by hospital or community mental health agency. They serve the community by providing emergency services to people in crisis, such as mental health evaluations, de-escalation , and/or pointers to local services ...
The city attorney’s office says San Francisco saw a nearly 500% increase in opioid-related overdose deaths between 2015 and 2020 and that on a typical day, roughly a quarter of visits at the ...
An outdoor public hearing on San Francisco's drug crisis came to an abrupt end Tuesday after protesters interrupted the event, with one attendee later arrested on suspicion of assault after a ...
In the 1960s, San Francisco and surrounding Bay Area cities enacted strict zoning regulations. [53] Zoning is the legal restriction of parts of a city to particular uses, such as residential, industrial, or commercial. In San Francisco, it also includes limitations on building height, density, and shape, and banning the demolition of old buildings.
A crisis on San Francisco’s streets. A shoeless person huddles on the street in San Francisco on May 16. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center is a nonprofit, publicly funded, 780 bed long-term acute care hospital in San Francisco, California, United States. It was founded in 1866 during the California Gold Rush as an almshouse, and later grew into an asylum, then an accredited hospital in 1963. It has been described as America's "last ...