How San Francisco is Responding to its Overdose Epidemic

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🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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More than 344 people died from accidental overdoses in San Francisco between January and June this year, according to the city’s chief medical examiner. Most of these overdoses involved fentanyl, a synthetic opiate that acts more quickly than heroin and is 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine. Fentanyl also caused the majority of 2020’s 710 overdose deaths. On Monday, San Francisco launched its Street Overdose Response Team, which provides resources and follow-up services for overdose survivors; the city also plans to allocate $13.2 million to additional overdose prevention efforts. We’ll talk about San Francisco’s response to the overdose crisis as well as its root causes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.3	In the first six months of 2021, 34 people overdosed on drugs and died.
1:02.3	Ventanol was a factor in most of them, but there are also deeper causes to the spike and drug-related deaths in the Bay Area.
1:08.7	We'll talk with the people who are trying to save lives on the ground and discuss what's known about what actually helps people desperately in need.
1:11.5	Then we look back at the legacy of Janice Marikatani,
1:14.1	the powerful former San Francisco poet laureate and co-founder of San Francisco's Glide Center for Social Justice
1:17.6	who passed away on Friday.
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