Posted on 05/06/2023 6:58:30 AM PDT by george76
San Francisco's drug overdose crisis is 'out of control,'..
Fentanyl and other drugs kill one person every 10 hours .
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San Francisco saw a staggering 41 percent surge in the number of drug-related deaths in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the same time last year.
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That amounts to one overdose death every 10 hours in a city that has seen its reputation as a coastal gem ravaged by worsening crime, drugs, and, homelessness rates, even as it remains home to tech billionaires.
The overdose victims were disproportionately black and Latino men
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Fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid that's frequently trafficked from Mexico and can kill in even tiny quantities, was detected in 159 of the deaths.
The drug is 50-100 times stronger than morphine.
It is cheap, packs down small, is relatively easy to smuggle into the US, and is mixed into pills that then claim the lives of users, who are often unaware they are taking something so powerful.
Methamphetamine and cocaine were also present, although to a lesser extent.
The sharp increase in deaths started in December and continued into a record-breaking January.
This followed the shuttering of the Tenderloin Center, where addicts were allowed to use drugs
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San Francisco Mayor London Breed last July replaced the city's soft-on-crime District Attorney Chesa Boudin with Brooke Jenkins, who vowed to get to grips with the city's worsening social problems.
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Scenes of fentanyl-addled mayhem are common on the streets of western cities like San Francisco and Portland, but the research showed how even towns and rural and mountain areas have been badly hit.
The US opioid crisis has been surging for decades, but intensified in the pandemic, when lockdowns and hospital closures left people particularly bored and vulnerable to addiction.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The Left doesn't give a damn about drug addicts, the homeless, blacks, or the LGBTQueers. It is using them to take over the country.
Once the Left is fully in charge, it won't even accept a phone call from BLM or the good folks from the Woke Movement.
Does anyone but me see this as a silver lining?
Give them all the fentanyl they want for free.
The overdose victims were disproportionately black and Latino men
Because they are controlled by China and the drug cartels.
Apparently no one dares say it.
Every one of their policies is to help the drug cartels.
‘We’re a politically divided city between the people who have a lot of money and want the streets swept and those who think a compassionate, science-based, health approach is appropriate,’ Dr Ciccarone told The Guardian.
MORE MONEY for the govt who doesn’t care.
> Once the Left is fully in charge, it won’t even accept a phone call from BLM or the good folks from the Woke Movement. <
It’s kind of like with Hitler. He needed the Brownshirts to gain power. But once in power, he had their top leaders liquidated.
Today’s starry-eyed young liberals miss that analogy completely.
That’s a good thing. Saves them a ticket to Oregon for assisted suicide.
Usually You have to hit bottom before you ask for help. Efforts have been futile, apparently they’re not ready for help.
This works out to one death per thousand per year. Extrapolated nationally, that would be 300,000 deaths.
Closing that drug distribution center has nothing to do with the increased death toll. I’m not an expert, but giving drugs to druggies doesn’t end drug use.
I would say that most people would agree with you.
“Does anyone but me see this as a silver lining?”
Things are going to have to get a lot worse in these cities before they finally turn around. The faster they get this over with, the better.
Self correcting problem?
That is exactly the same approach Stalin, Pol Pot, and Castro/She took. It is pure Marxist takeover doctrine.
“Extrapolated nationally, that would be 300,000 deaths.”
And yet we remain fixated on a handful of unfortunate incidents involving the people who can do something about this tragedy. Will folks ever see how they are being manipulated?
On the Story Channel yesterday - In SF before 1965, Hospitals would see 1-2 cases of Drug Overdoses and violent crimes a WEEK - After 1965 when drugs invaded SF, new emergency rooms were built to handle the cases.
That’s one way to get the sh!+ off the streets...
In San Francisco, a judge halted efforts to move the city’s vulnerable homeless indoors before torrential rains pounded the state for weeks; the judge had sided with a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the city.And six months after closing the drug-consumption site, Mayor Breed and the Board of Supervisors announced in early January that they intended to open 12 new sites across the city.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/americas-shadow-self
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