Posted on 12/13/2021 8:54:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind
San Francisco continues to face a drug overdose epidemic. The number of overdose deaths nearly tripled that of COVID deaths in 2020.
The city’s data reveals there were a total of 713 overdose deaths, compared to 261 COVID-19 deaths in 2020.
“Bad is an understatement. I would say it’s horrific, it is negligent, it is an epidemic in and of itself, and it was not always this way,” Jenny Shao, a freelance multimedia video journalist and San Francisco native, told NTD Television.
She says drug overdoses have been an ongoing crisis for the city but have gotten much worse over the last five years.
“Before, you were able to walk through the streets … and you did not have to try and tiptoe over bodies not knowing whether they were dead or alive.” Shao said.
Shao continued, “And, also, you did not have to hopscotch through anything like drug paraphernalia … and you were not literally walking through a scene, of say, ‘The Night of the Living Dead,’” Shao said.
One drug addict’s mother has described it as a “Zombie Apocalypse.” Her 32-year-old son is addicted to fentanyl, which has left him homeless and physically “bent over” so that he “walks like an old man.”
People have also described the city as a Third-World country with human waste and needles on the street. City officials have made efforts to tackle the problem.
According to one report from the Department of Public Health, San Francisco distributes 4.45 million needles every year to drug users.
In July, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the city will invest $13.2 million to prevent drug overdoses. It includes opening centers to provide beds and treatment for the intoxicated and expanding access to buprenorphine, an opioid used to treat opioid-use disorder.
Recently, city officials are pushing for safe injection sites as part of their overdose prevention program, which could start as soon as next spring.
But according to Shao, not a single center offered alternatives to drugs. She said that’s like putting a Band-Aid on the problem and “fast-tracking a way to self-destruction.”
“The idea is sobriety, and that’s the golden key,” Shao said.
“You do not want to be dependent on these drugs. And from what I understand of these harm-reduction sites—as the city likes to call them—is that you are putting yourself at less risk, of say, overdose or harm. But, nevertheless, you are still locked in that state of constantly abusing yourself. And, so to speak, teetering on the border of death.”
Shao says the city needs to invest in more mental health programs.
Fentanyl. Made in China. Packaged in Mexico. Shipped across the newly open US southern border. Compliments of the biden-harris administration. Smoke up!
Drug overdoses are simply the chemical version of the Soylent Green scoop trucks without the recycling into a nutritious snack cookie part.
"Gump, you're a goddamn genius!"
Regards,
Good. I’m not going to feel sympathy for people who numb their lives intentionally, or for that matter illegal aliens who don’t quite make it here. I also don’t cry when a burglar fails.
Free, uncut, pure, CARFENTANIL!
Make it easily available to every addict and potential addict in America, in 6 months you won’t have any more drug addicts!
Grind up the corpses and feed them to all the ILLEGAL ALIENS, problem solved.
Is there someplace we can donate funds to keep shipping drugs to San Fransicko?
Drug overdoses are simply the Left’s method of culling the unfit from the herd. It is death by self-induced lethal injection.
Fentanyl gets rid of a lot of Covid.
Yep....compliments of Biden’s open border.....drugged up and dying Americans while bringing in 3rd worlders in that they can control to replace them.
Need to stop administering narcan, and this problem will go away very quickly. One strike and you are dead, and streets will be cleaner in six months.
one of my kids was an emt in a big’ish city, spent 90% of his time driving around reviving drug-addicts - usually the same people, over and over again.
narcan doesn’t save anybody, it just delays the inevitable and cost taxpayers money in the meantime.
a good govt would help them STOP instead of spending thousands on narcan administration.....
Just for accurate information..this was 2020, biden was not the prez. However migrant caravans of thousands began under Trump because he flinched, as did Reagan, on the wall. We were all on here trying to warn him about the wall negotiations.
and narcan just motivates them to go get more dope for their fix....
The Opiate problem has been going on in the Bay Area back in the late 90’s
I heard my first case of a Heroin death around 2000.
Illegals use our Energy...
An OD death clears side walk tent space and lessens the urine small
There are no such covid death benefits
I always felt such cities should cordon off a several block area and allow the druggies to get high there. One way in, one way out. Police on the gates.
Drugs and liquor for sale cheap inside. Also a morgue and incinerator for the dead. Flush the ashes into the sewer.
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