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Blue city achievement: San Francisco hits its highest overdose count in history
American Thinker ^ | 12/15/23 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 12/15/2023 7:43:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Despite claims to having its homeless situation on the mend and under control, San Francisco is a bigger hellhole than ever.

According to Fox News, overdose deaths have hit a historic record high:

The San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) showed in its latest report that the city had the most accidental drug overdoses ever recorded in a single year, many of which involved fentanyl.

The report — released on the OCME’s website Thursday — shows the city had 752 accidental overdoses recorded during the first 11 months of 2023. The highest number of accidental overdoses recorded for an entire year was in 2020, with 726 reported by the OCME.

With a little more than two weeks left in 2023, the number of accidental overdoses is expected to rise by the end of the year.

Seems the situation is not under control, it's worse than ever, and all those "support" groups for the homeless and all those "services" for the drug-addicted that the city has laid out billions for, have brought more overdoses than ever.

As Lee Ohanian at the Hoover Institution has noted:

 
Since fiscal year 2016–17, San Francisco has spent over $2.8 billion on homelessness, and the city's politicians remain seemingly baffled, year after year, as the number of homeless in the city skyrocket, as opioid overdoses kill more than COVID-19, and as the city has become nearly the most dangerous in the country. 

Since 2016, the number of homeless in San Francisco has increased from 12,249 to 19,086, which comes out to about $57,000 in spending per homeless person per year. With a total population of about 860,000, roughly 2.2 percent of San Francisco residents are homeless, which is over 12 times the national average.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: fentanyl; overdose; sanfrancisco

1 posted on 12/15/2023 7:43:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

There’s hope to clear those streets then.


2 posted on 12/15/2023 7:47:56 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: SeekAndFind
grapple-with-the-vacuum
3 posted on 12/15/2023 7:49:06 AM PST by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: SeekAndFind

100,000+ ODs nationally/yr. But ARs are THE problem. Well, and any other privately possessed firearms. No, really.


4 posted on 12/15/2023 7:52:50 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: SeekAndFind

WINNING!


5 posted on 12/15/2023 7:54:26 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

Addition by Subtraction.


6 posted on 12/15/2023 7:55:50 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“ Since 2016, the number of homeless in San Francisco has increased from 12,249 to 19,086, which comes out to about $57,000 in spending per homeless person per year.”

That’s above the average middle class salary.

L


7 posted on 12/15/2023 7:57:08 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: SeekAndFind
SF elite Liberalism enables Darwin to thin the SF herd.
8 posted on 12/15/2023 8:00:05 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Margaret Thatcher, "Socialism works fine until you run out of other people's money!")
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To: SeekAndFind
San Francisco hits its highest overdose count in history

Now there's something to cheer about.

9 posted on 12/15/2023 8:04:57 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Lurker

Proving it’s all about graft.


10 posted on 12/15/2023 8:13:00 AM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: SeekAndFind

They would do well to distribute free fentanyl.


11 posted on 12/15/2023 8:26:09 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: SeekAndFind

A self licking ice cream cone.


12 posted on 12/15/2023 8:53:40 AM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: SeekAndFind

Population reduction plan working beautifully. Convince teens to lop off body parts so they will finally commit suicide is also on target, as is keeping white women so traumatized by carbon dioxide and so fearful of pregnancy that aderal is continuouslt prescribed. And young woen, especially blacks, keep killing their own in the womb. It’s all working so beautifully. Shout out to hamas for oct 7th.

Satan is thinking big plans for next year. We’ll see.


13 posted on 12/15/2023 9:35:07 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

It will get worse before it gets better. It will get better after it gets worse. Once they hit rock bottom things will turn around. I hate to say it but overdosing is not the worst way to die. They just go to sleep and never wake up. I would say save their life twice but after that maybe we should tell them goodbye.


14 posted on 12/15/2023 9:42:29 AM PST by webheart
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To: SeekAndFind

No such thing as an accidental overdose.


15 posted on 12/15/2023 9:44:49 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Lurker

There’s no way that the number of homeless is that small. It’s like a layer of homeless population superimposed on the regular population. It’s that way in cities all over California and all along the west coast. It’s a significant portion of the population. They keep building houses but the numbers of homeless increase. Who is living in those houses? Also have people noticed that the homeless are mostly white and black people? There are hardly any Asian or Hispanic homeless people. I noticed the numbers of black homeless people have been growing a lot in the last 4 years. Before that it was mostly white people.


16 posted on 12/15/2023 9:49:52 AM PST by webheart
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To: SeekAndFind
Yet, millions of morons think that woke utopia is "the best of all possible worlds."
17 posted on 12/15/2023 10:13:13 AM PST by Savage Beast (TRUTH is a terrifying thing to behold when trapped in a web of delusion.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Libtards plan to let as many people kill themselves as possible to help “alleviate” the problem.


18 posted on 12/15/2023 10:23:03 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: SeekAndFind
more usage means more deaths ... suggests that these fentanyl deaths ... now are a function of all the additional cash spent on supposedly fixing homelessness and drug addiction, as well as the failed criminal justice system which refuses to deport Honduran drug dealers who control the fentanyl trade there, owing to the negative impact a felony conviction for drug trafficking would have on their deportation prospects.

Yikes. With attitudes like that our country is doomed and not just the fentanyl addicts.

Bring back the hangman and the Pauper Prisons. We'll also need new insane asylums for the politicians and the people who voted for them.

The real answer in the long run is a Jesus Revival and a casting out of the Devil and his demonic host.

19 posted on 12/15/2023 11:21:17 AM PST by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
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