A district in the center of San Francisco, in the United States, it was declared this Friday in state of emergency, due to the increase in drug overdoses and the deaths it is causing, mainly fentanyl.
Tenderloin, neighborhood located south of the tourist and commercial center Union Square, was listed as the epicenter of a opioid crisis that has been unleashed throughout the American Union.
The city overseer, Matt Haney, He warned that “we are losing more than two people a day due to drug overdoses, mainly due to fentanyl, and mainly in Tenderloin and SoMa.”
“This is a public health emergency that demands a response at the crisis level, with massive urgency, coordination and determination to confront this epidemic, “he added.
Since fentanyl infiltrated San Francisco in the mid-2000s, an exponential increase in overdoses has been recorded.
Fentanyl is a strong synthetic opioid analgesic similar to morphine, but between 50 and 100 times more powerful.
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