![]() Some experts are now using the term “drug-poisoning crisis” instead of “overdose crisis” because the root of the increase is in contamination of the drug supply with the powerful narcotic fentanyl. The site became a local flash point in the debate about how to handle the drug-poisoning crisis, which killed more than 100,000 Americans in 2021 alone ( CDC National Center for Health Statistics, 2022). Last year, the city government of San Francisco did something new as part of an emergency response to the city’s overdose crisis: They opened a center in the Tenderloin neighborhood where people could go to use substances in a supervised environment, well stocked with the opioid-blocker naloxone and staffed with medical professionals to watch for potential signs of overdose.
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