The San Francisco Chronicle released a report Saturday that showed a record 621 people have died of drug overdoses in San Francisco so far this year. This is up 180 deaths from last year.Â
Comparatively, 173 have died from COVID-19 in San Francisco thus far.Â
The report shows the powerful painkiller fentanyl has flooded the city's drug supply and the pandemic has disrupted city services such as supervised consumption services or safe injection facilities. Even housing and treatment centers were disrupted.Â
According to the report, Narcan, the drug used to treat narcotic overdoses in an emergency situations, was used over 3,000 times this year, up 390 times from the year before.Â
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