The 41% spike comes as the city closed an outreach center that stocked Narcan and allowed supervised drug use
Since closing the center, Breed has sought $25m to increase police overtime with the priority of arresting drug dealers.
“Something that has been sold to folks as a strategy that is going to work and help tackle the overdose crisis is having the exact opposite effect,” said McCoy, adding that the police tactics create dangers that go beyond the fact that health officials no longer have the chance to witness and reverse overdoses at the Tenderloin Center.
“People expected too much from it too soon,” he said of San Francisco’s center. “It gave the outward appearance that people were congregating to consume drugs. But here we have it closed for three months and the first three months show a tremendous rise in overdose deaths.” In a statement, the San Francisco Department of Health said it has undertaken a host of measures to prevent overdoses, including adding hundreds of new beds for addiction recovery treatment, expanding neighborhood street care teams and making Narcan and medication-assisted addiction treatment options more available.
“These enforcement actions will continue, while our street outreach teams continue to go out and offer services and treatment,” wrote Breed.
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