San Jose doctor arrested in opioid prescription scheme
South Bay doctor was arrested Friday and charged with several felonies related to an alleged illegal opioid prescription scheme, according to the California Attorney General's Office.
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South Bay doctor was arrested Friday and charged with several felonies related to an alleged illegal opioid prescription scheme, according to the California Attorney General's Office.
A longtime resident of San Francisco's Tenderloin District has made it his mission to document life in the beleaguered neighborhood, in the hope that police and city officials can gain a better understanding of what people living there face on a daily basis.
The Bay Area's drug crisis is increasingly landing on the region's largest transit system as users ride BART to San Francisco to buy cheap drugs in the Tenderloin.
Santa Cruz County Emergency Medical Services has launched a new program to expand the distribution of the drug buprenorphine by emergency responders in an effort to reduce opioid overdoses in the area.
A 35-year-old woman who died in early June has been confirmed as Santa Cruz County's first death related to xylazine use, according to county health officials.
A family physician from San Jose is facing federal prison time after being found guilty of illegally prescribing massive quantities of opioids, including to a person who later died of an overdose, federal prosecutors said Friday.
The fentanyl crisis in San Francisco shows no sign of ebbing according to a new report which shows last month was one of the deadliest.
Mayor London Breed officially unveiled her budget plan Wednesday ahead of what's expected to be a long negotiation with the Board of Supervisors. Judging by the mayor's comments, she's ready for a fight.
San Francisco was supposed to have a public discussion about the fentanyl crisis on Tuesday. It ended in chaos and with someone throwing a brick at city officials. So what comes next?
An Alameda County woman was accused of distributing the drug fentanyl to a person who subsequently died, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is about to question Mayor London Breed in a first-of-its-kind outdoor hearing, right in the heart of the city's challenges with drug addiction and drug dealing.
The fentanyl crisis in San Francisco has made national headlines and a new ad campaign has people talking.
Walgreens has agreed to a nearly $230 million settlement with San Francisco after being held responsible by a federal judge last year for contributing to the city's ongoing opioid crisis.
San Francisco and California officials spoke of their plans to fight the deadly fentanyl scourge in the city during a press conference at City Hall Friday.
The San Jose Police Officers' Association (SJPOA) has fired Joanne Segovia, the union's executive director who was charged last month with attempting to illegally import synthetic opioids into the U.S. for distribution.
While the Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to distribute the overdose reversal drug naloxone or Narcan over the counter, a Peninsula father who lost his son to fentanyl is doing what he can now to save lives.
The executive director of the San Jose Police Officers' Association (SJPOA) has been charged with attempting to illegally import synthetic opioids into the U.S. for mass distribution, according to federal authorities.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling naloxone without a prescription
A Sebastopol couple's fight against drug addiction is personal, and they are channeling their own family's grief into helping others avoid the same fate.
A Sebastopol couple's fight against drug addiction is personal, and they are channeling their own family's grief into helping others avoid the same fate. Sharon Chin reports.
Five people at a Christmas day gathering in San Francisco were hospitalized, two of them in critical condition, when they suffered a possible drug overdose.
As California college students prepare to return to campus for the spring semester, the California Department of Public Health is connecting universities with the life-saving opioid overdose medication, naloxone.
As opioid overdose deaths continue to rise, a San Francisco lawmaker introduced a bill that would make Naloxone, a medicine that rapidly reverses opioid overdoses, more widely available. Max Darrow reports. (12-22-22)
As the number of opioid deaths continue to rise, a Bay Area lawmaker has introduced a proposal requiring public places carry naloxone to reverse overdoses.
A week after San Francisco's only safe injection site was shut down, city leaders and community activists called out Mayor London Breed and the Department of Health for not offering any alternatives, at a time when hundreds of drug-addicted people are dying.
