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Inside a hip Lower East Side cocktail bar, late on a recent Saturday night a crowd of young party-goers formed a line outside the bathroom as punk music blared in the background. That’s when one local restaurant worker cut through the noise with a warning: “If anyone is using drugs tonight, do it safely and test!” This has become the unsettling new reality both in and out of the party scene in New York City as fentanyl, the synthetic opioid responsible for about 150 overdose deaths in the US a day, has infiltrated nearly every aspect of the illicit drug...

San Francisco's drug overdose crisis is 'out of control,'.. Fentanyl and other drugs kill one person every 10 hours . ... 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. ... 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 ... Fentanyl, a potent synthetic...