SF's 'Okay to Call' program to clarify when residents should call 911 or 311
With the rise in fentanyl overdoses on San Francisco streets, the City is rolling out a public information program to help residents know when to call 911.
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With the rise in fentanyl overdoses on San Francisco streets, the City is rolling out a public information program to help residents know when to call 911.
The fentanyl crisis in San Francisco has made national headlines and a new ad campaign has people talking.
Shawn Chitnis reports on a North Bay mother working to raise awareness about the dangers of fentanyl three years after her son's overdose death (3-6-2023)
Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies revived a man who was having an overdose at the Martinez Detention Facility Tuesday morning.
Four men were found unconscious at a park in Northern California and two of them died likely from drug overdoses, police said.
Santa Rosa police issued another warning about the extreme toxic danger of fentanyl after a toddler died possibly because of exposure to the drug. John Ramos reports.
FentCheck spends a dollar a piece on fentanyl test strips and distributes them to bars, art galleries and tattoo parlors in the hopes of slowing the overdose crisis, even a little.
Officials with the San Francisco Department of Public Health issued a warning Thursday to the general public about a recent trend of fentanyl being found in other drugs like cocaine.
For the first time in three years, the number of overdose deaths in San Francisco has gone down, with a 7 percent decrease in 2021 compared to the previous year, city officials said on Wednesday.
An estimated 100,000 Americans have died of drug overdose in one calendar year, a never-before-seen milestone that's causing new alarm over the nation's addiction crisis.
A Bay Area father is making a plea to other parents after a counterfeit pill laced with fentanyl destroyed his family.
Tuesday, Mayor London Breed announced a first of its kind program to try and slow the crisis of drug addiction in San Francisco. The concept is called a sobering center.
A Brentwood woman was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder, narcotics possession and child abuse resulting in the September death of her 2-year-old son, police said.
With overdoses related to fentanyl on the rise in San Francisco, the city will begin implementing a new program at Single Room Occupancy hotels.
The Board of Supervisors in San Francisco unanimously passed an ordinance to create a Street-Level Drug Dealing Task Force during Tuesday's meeting.
California joined other states in a lawsuit filed Monday accusing Purdue Pharma of falsely promoting OxyContin as not addictive even as the opioid emerged as among the most widely abused in the U.S.
Police officers only recently trained in administering Naloxone, an opioid reversal medication, had to use it twice in two days on suspected overdose cases, the Emeryville Police Department said in a news release.
Police were blaming a mass overdose in Chico on Fentanyl after one person died and 14 others were hospitalized Saturday.
Rapper Mac Miller was found dead Friday after a suspected overdose, according to reports. He was 26 years old.
Prosecutors will seek extradition of a woman convicted in a Google executive's overdose death so she can face separate charges in the deadly overdose of her boyfriend near Atlanta.
Alix Tichelman was known as the 'Call Girl Killer,' and convicted in the heroin overdose death of Google executive Forrest Hayes. Now, she is telling her side of the story.
Authorities Friday afternoon confirmed that ambulances were responding to multiple medical emergencies including at least one opioid overdose at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park where 4/20 revelers have gathered.
Prince thought he was taking a common painkiller but instead ingested a counterfeit pill that he probably did not know contained fentanyl, a Minnesota prosecutor said Thursday as he announced that no charges would be filed in the musician's death.
The report found that emergency department visits due to suspected opioid overdoses continued to climb -- about 30% -- from July 2016 to September 2017 across the country.
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office says nine Isla Vista residents with drug overdose symptoms were sent to hospitals.
