Bay Area billboard campaign shares stories from families wrecked by fentanyl overdoses
A billboard campaign along Bay Area freeways is featuring people, as young as one-year-old, who have lost their lives to fentanyl. Katie Nielsen reports.
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A billboard campaign along Bay Area freeways is featuring people, as young as one-year-old, who have lost their lives to fentanyl. Katie Nielsen reports.
Honduran national Gustavo Erazo was extradited to the United States to face charges related to an alleged conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine in the Bay Area, the office of U.S. Attorney Ismail Ramsey announced Friday.
Both President-elect Donald Trump and incoming "border czar" Tom Homan cite inflated figures, with Trump often makes a misleading connection between migrants illegally crossing the border and the flow of fentanyl.
Police in San Francisco arrested a man suspected of selling drugs in the city's Tenderloin, following a foot pursuit Wednesday evening.
Sooji Nam reports on the success of a San Francisco take-home methadone treatment program.
Police in San Francisco on Tuesday night arrested three people and seized more than four pounds of fentanyl, as part of an investigation into drug sales in the city's Tenderloin.
A Honduran national suspected of being involved in the distribution of fentanyl in the Bay Area was extradited to the U.S. this week to face drug dealing charges, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
CBS News California takes a closer look at the drug component of the high-profile Proposition 36 to fact-check claims about the ballot measure from supporters and opponents.
Like San Francisco, fentanyl drove a surge in overdose numbers in Vancouver, British Columbia. After implementing progressive drug policies, the Canadian province is signaling a significant change of course.
After implementing progressive drug policies, the Canadian province is signaling a significant change of course. Wilson Walker reports. (9-27-24)
In the ongoing fight against opioid addiction, Gov. Gavin Newson has signed a bill aimed at expanding access to methadone treatment in California.
Drug overdose deaths from opioids such as heroin and fentanyl have fallen from a peak in 2023.
A pilot program launched in San Francisco earlier this year is providing outreach to help fentanyl users on the city's streets.
Itay Hod reports on a new program in San Francisco providing outreach to help fentanyl addicts on the street.
John Ramos spoke to the people behind a vaccine that, if approved, could help end the scourge of fentanyl deaths. (9-13-24) Website: http://kpix.com YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CBSSanFrancisco
Much as San Francisco and Vancouver have tried differing approaches to alleviating the fentanyl crisis, San Francisco's candidates for mayor have varied views on how to solve the problem.
Much as San Francisco and Vancouver have tried differing approaches to alleviating the fentanyl crisis, S.F. candidates for mayor have varied views on how to solve the problem. Wilson Walker reports (8-29-24)
While Vancouver and San Francisco may have differing approaches when it comes to the opioid crisis, there is a very similar debate in each city over what the approach to the emergency should look like.
San Francisco and Vancouver, British Columbia, are two West Coast cities that have been hit hard by the fentanyl crisis, but health officials in the Canadian metropolis have responded with a decidedly different approach.
It its battle to curb soaring fentanyl overdose number, the Canadian city of Vancouver has tried bold strategies including safe-use sites and a government-regulated drug supply. Not all Canadians agree with the results.
Wilson Walker reports on questions over whether Vancouver's safe-use sites and regulated drugs for addicts might be encouraging abuse.
Wilson Walker takes an in-depth look at how the city of Vancouver in British Columbia has taken a more open-minded approach to the opioid crisis.
The co-owner of six Bay Area Ace Hardware stores will be holding training events at the stores to teach people how to use Narcan, the overdose reversal drug.
A federal prison inmate and two other people are facing charges of conspiring to mail drugs to a penitentiary in California where a mailroom supervisor died last week after opening a letter that prosecutors say was laced with fentanyl and other substances.
The California State Assembly Select Committee on Fentanyl, Opioid Addiction and Overdose Prevention on Monday during an informational hearing discussed the urgency of combatting the rise in overdose deaths among youth in recent years primarily due to ingesting fentanyl.
