VIDEO – CITY AS INTERVENTIONIST –
NOV. 14, 2024 – The fentanyl crisis has redefined drug overdoses in a way never before seen with other opioids.
And, San Francisco has thrown money, resources, time and energy to –not so much solve the problem–but get a handle on the number of deaths caused by fentanyl. San Francisco’s health department, at times criticized for not doing enough to encourage people to go into drug treatment programs, is focusing on a different kind of recovery campaign. The NEW campaign features nine people in recovery who have found success in treatment. The “Living Proof” campaign coincides with the expansion of the city’s treatment-on-demand program.
Last May, we followed the Health Department’s Night Navigation Team as they offered people on the street a consultation with an on-call doctor who could prescribe medication and offer treatment to try to get them off fentanyl and other opioids.
