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David Sjostedt

Fed up with drug users, street vigilantes are wielding Narcan ‘like a weapon’

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Online commenters have called the alleged use of Narcan on unsuspecting victims a “new strategy for moving bums out of your way.” Health experts say it could kill.

Drug users still plague SF streets. This former inmate may have the answer

Douglas Liu used to be on the lam from federal charges. Now he’s working to end the drug crisis, one lost soul at a time. 

By day, SFPD smothers open-air drug markets. By night, the arrests plummet

Despite a highly publicized crackdown over the past two years, cops are allowing illegal activity to thrive at night.

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Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez

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Jonah Owen Lamb

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Daniel Lurie’s 100-day progress report

Politics

Here's what the mayor has accomplished on homelessness, crime, the budget hole, and other big issues.

SF is done being soft on drug users

A strategy developed during the AIDS crisis has fallen out of favor in the fentanyl epidemic. Its advocates say people will die. 

Drug Overdose Crisis

Fed up with drug users, street vigilantes are wielding Narcan ‘like a weapon’

Drug users still plague SF streets. This former inmate may have the answer

By day, SFPD smothers open-air drug markets. By night, the arrests plummet

Daniel Lurie’s 100-day progress report

SF is done being soft on drug users