San Francisco hit its record for accidental drug overdoses last month, according to city data.
August surpassed the 83 drug overdose deaths that occurred at the beginning of 2023 to become the deadliest month since San Francisco began tracking monthly overdose deaths three years ago.
A total of 563 people have died from a drug overdose so far this year in the California city.
“It’s crazy, so sad out here. It’s like a zombie apocalypse,” San Francisco resident Georgia Taylor told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Taylor said she started using fentanyl “because I lost my two kids to child protective services and had a broken heart.”
“You can’t help people who don’t want help,” Taylor continued. “You can find 100 people out here who have 100 different reasons for using, and we all have to be ready to quit before it will work. I’ve been clean before; and I so, so want to get clean again before I overdose and die. But it’s so hard.”
From Newsmax:
Apart from the ongoing fentanyl crisis, a new drug is flooding the San Francisco drug scene and causing new problems for the city, The Daily Wire reported. Known as "tranq" on the streets, xylazine is an inexpensive, skin-rotting horse tranquilizer manufactured in China that has recently appeared on the streets of San Francisco, Philadelphia, and New York. The "zombie drug" causes skin lesions that can penetrate to the bone and can slow a person's heart rate and breathing until they are catatonic or dead.
