USA. At least 10 times a day, someone on the brink of death from a drug overdose is saved in S.F.
USA. At least 10 times a day, someone on the brink of death from a drug overdose is saved in S.F.
At least 10 times a day, someone on the brink of death from a drug overdose is saved in San Francisco, according to new data provided to The Chronicle.
And that’s likely a massive undercount.
San Francisco’s drug epidemic has skyrocketed this year, claiming about 470 lives in just the first eight months of the year, according to preliminary data from the medical examiner. In a similar time period, at least 2,155 potentially fatal overdoses were prevented by the opioid reversal medication Narcan, which is commonly sprayed up the nose. (San Francisco Chronicle, USA, 15.10.2020)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-s-overdose-numbers-are-staggeringly-high-15648878.php