San Francisco could become the first city in the country to require every pharmacy within its boundaries to always carry naloxone, a drug that reverses overdoses caused by fentanyl and other opioids.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday that police have seized enough fentanyl in the last six weeks to kill 2.1 million people — more than double the population of San Francisco., and over 70% of those deaths were attributable to fentanyl, according to the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
"This is life and death, and this is a public health crisis that San Francisco has not experienced since the days of the AIDS crisis," Dorsey said. Dorsey said a recent "secret shopper" survey conducted by the San Francisco Department of Public Health found that approximately 20% of San Francisco pharmacies did not have naloxone in stock, despite having legal authorization to provide it on request.
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