Although The City recorded fewer fatalities in the first six months of the year than the same period in a record-setting 2023, it’s on pace for its second-highest annual total
Drug- overdose deaths in San Francisco fell 27% in June, with The City recording fewer fatalities through the first six months of 2024 than the same time last year, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
There were 48 overdose deaths in June, 18 fewer than the previous month and nine fewer than in June 2023. Nearly 72% of the deaths San Francisco has recorded this year were attributed to fentanyl, down from more than 80% in all of 2023. The Department of Public Health has expanded efforts to address the ongoing overdose crisis, launching a pilot program in the spring to facilitate the prescription of addiction-treatment medicine.
Supes’ rent-control resolution roils San Francisco housing debate Supervisors passed a resolution Tuesday backing November statewide ballot measure to repeal California’s decades-old law blocking rent-control measures In some instances, the program also provides people with a weeklong intensive stabilization program that includes shelter and case-management services.
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