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County supervisors this year gave the program an additional $8 million from opioid lawsuit settlements. That sum ultimately did not increase funding for treatment because the county shifted an equivalent amount of money to a different need, according to a statement from the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. “The overall (medication-assisted treatment) program funding remained the same” despite the extra money the department received, the statement reads. In a Sept. 16 memo obtained by CalMatters, Chief Medical Officer Sean Henderson said Correctional Health Services “will be taking a pause on primary care in ordering buprenorphine.” The medication reduces cravings and prevents overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new mandate restricts how quickly and broadly Correctional Health Services physicians can prescribe the medication. Priority will be given to people when they first enter the jail system — the largest in California — which houses roughly 13,000 people across nine main facilities. Everyone else who wants medication will be placed on a waitlist. “It’s misleading because we just put people on this list and then they stay on the list,” said a physician. 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Payouts would occur over the next 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement would also require the Sacklers to give up control of the company. The future of Purdue Pharma would be left up to a board of trustees selected by participating states and others who sued the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The opioid epidemic has ravaged communities in California and across the country,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement. “By holding Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family accountable for their role in fueling the opioid epidemic, we’re bringing much-needed funds for addiction treatment, prevention, and recovery to those impacted by this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PurduePharmaHeadquarters01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PurduePharmaHeadquarters01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PurduePharmaHeadquarters01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PurduePharmaHeadquarters01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PurduePharmaHeadquarters01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/PurduePharmaHeadquarters01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and its owners, the Sackler family, are facing hundreds of lawsuits across the country for the company’s alleged role in the opioid epidemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans over the past 20 years. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The agreement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family represents the nation’s largest settlement relating to the opioid crisis, and the money will be used to fund addiction treatment, recovery and prevention efforts across the country, according to Bonta’s statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a previous settlement deal involving Purdue Pharma because it protected members of the Sackler family from civil lawsuits over OxyContin even though the family did not file for bankruptcy. The new agreement would only protect the Sacklers from lawsuits brought forward by people who participate in the settlement; others would still be allowed to sue the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creditors can preserve their right to take legal action against the Sacklers if they do not opt in to the Sackler releases contained in the Plan,” Purdue Pharma said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.purduepharma.com/news/2025/03/18/purdue-pharma-l-p-files-new-plan-of-reorganization-providing-for-more-than-7-4-billion-in-creditor-distributions/\">a statement\u003c/a> in March, when the company filed the deal in bankruptcy court.[aside postID=news_12044201 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/VaccinationsStory.jpg']Over the past several years, lawsuits against the company and others accused of facilitating the drug epidemic have been filed by local and state officials, Native American tribal governments and others. Settlements amounting to nearly $50 billion have already been announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has already secured nearly $4 billion from companies that state officials say helped fuel the nation’s ongoing opioid crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2023, pharmacy giant Walgreens agreed to pay San Francisco nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949888/walgreens-pay-san-francisco-230-million-opioid-crisis\">$230 million\u003c/a> after it was accused of issuing thousands of suspect opioid prescriptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months before that, Walmart and CVS Pharmacy offered to pay the county up to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946346/walmart-cvs-set-to-pay-san-francisco-19-million-in-opioid-settlements\">$18.8 million\u003c/a> after San Francisco joined nationwide lawsuits accusing the corporations of negligent prescription practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A court hearing for the Purdue Pharma settlement is scheduled for Wednesday, according to a statement issued by the company. If the court approves the disclosure statement, the terms of the settlement will be voted on by the company’s creditors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s announcement of unanimous support among the states and territories is a critical milestone towards confirming a Plan of Reorganization that will provide billions of dollars to compensate victims, abate the opioid crisis, and deliver opioid use disorder and overdose rescue medicines that will save American lives,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/sjohnson\">\u003cem>Sydney Johnson\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Friday, May 30, 2025…\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California’s brown pelicans are in trouble again — and this time it involves infant birds. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996948/californias-pelicans-are-once-again-starving-this-year-its-the-babies\">This spring marks the third starvation event in four years\u003c/a> for the iconic seabirds. And scientists are still looking for answers. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overdose deaths are falling nationwide—but in California, they continue to rise.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/05/community-colleges-california/\">People applying to California’s community colleges will soon be required to verify their identities\u003c/a> when they submit their applications. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The board that governs community colleges made the decision after multiple reports of scammers applying \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and getting into\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> schools.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996948/californias-pelicans-are-once-again-starving-this-year-its-the-babies\">Brown Pelicans Struggle With Illness And Starvation As Experts Search For Solutions\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s the third \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992933/california-has-a-theory-on-why-brown-pelicans-are-starving-and-dying\">starvation event\u003c/a> in four years for the iconic California seabirds. Experts can’t fully explain why, though they said climate change is at play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything’s getting weirder,” said Corinne Gibble, a marine bird specialist for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. “We’re having \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1993633/algal-blooms-love-heat-waves-when-is-bay-area-swimming-dangerous-for-humans-and-pets\">harmful algal blooms\u003c/a> and more unexpected weather events. What we can do is get more birds into rehab and better the science around helping them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To explain last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992933/california-has-a-theory-on-why-brown-pelicans-are-starving-and-dying\">starving pelicans\u003c/a>, scientists hypothesized that the birds could not see their prey in choppy, murky water after late-season storms. Another possibility is that anchovies and other fish swam farther below the warm sea surface, too deep for the pelicans to reach. During last year’s event, the state recorded roughly 1,000 pelicans captured for rehabilitation — and in 2022, for similar reasons, 800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, there are only 250 ailing pelicans tallied so far, but there are new challenges. The seabirds arrived in two waves, sick and then starving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rebecca Duerr, who directs veterinary science at International Bird Rescue, said this spring, a toxic algal bloom first poisoned some adult birds. The blooms, predicted to become \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/habs/climate-change-and-freshwater-harmful-algal-blooms#:~:text=Scientists%20continue%20to%20document%20many,more%20often%20in%20more%20waterbodies.\">more severe with climate change\u003c/a>, have lasted \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02052025/california-toxic-algae-marine-life-poisoning/#:~:text=This%20is%20the%20fourth%20year,for%20longer%2C%E2%80%9D%20Lefebvre%20said.\">longer\u003c/a> this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then came the starving babies. The majority of the roughly 250 pelicans International Bird Rescue received since March were less than 6 months old. The center gets about two-thirds of the birds statewide and considers 90 birds a month highly unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This second wave of almost 200 rescued starving babies is still a mystery. Maybe the algal blooms also affected them. Maybe their successful breeding season just meant higher numbers didn’t learn to forage. \u003c/span>Another theory about these starving young, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Duerr \u003c/span>said, is that their parents, sickened by the harmful algal blooms, might have abandoned them before they were ready to forage alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These young birds didn’t know how to eat yet,” Duerr said. “It’s circumstantial evidence, but it looked like, you know, if mom doesn’t come back, they have to leave the nest or they’ll die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So far, there are less starving pelicans than last year. 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The center gets about two-thirds of the birds statewide and considers 90 birds a month highly unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This second wave of almost 200 rescued starving babies is still a mystery. Maybe the algal blooms also affected them. Maybe their successful breeding season just meant higher numbers didn’t learn to forage. \u003c/span>Another theory about these starving young, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Duerr \u003c/span>said, is that their parents, sickened by the harmful algal blooms, might have abandoned them before they were ready to forage alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These young birds didn’t know how to eat yet,” Duerr said. “It’s circumstantial evidence, but it looked like, you know, if mom doesn’t come back, they have to leave the nest or they’ll die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So far, there are less starving pelicans than last year. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11587509/\">study\u003c/a> published in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience, medetomidine is over 100 times more potent than xylazine. Improper use of the drug is associated with severe blood pressure instability, including hypotension and central nervous system depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s too soon to say whether medetomidine will supplant other drugs in the illicit market even as its presence increases, said Keith Humphreys, a Stanford University professor and addiction policy researcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both medetomidine and xylazine are earmarked for veterinary use and therefore face less rigorous regulation processes than substances made for humans, which could explain why they’re becoming more common in the recreational drug supply, Humphreys said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more important is making sure the public knows what the drug is and what its effects are, he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naloxone cannot be used to treat overdoses involving medetomidine. While there are reversal agents that can be used to reverse the drug’s sedative effects, they are not as common because they’re marketed for animals, Humphreys said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco recorded \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031847/sf-sees-decline-in-overdose-deaths-but-fentanyl-remains-a-major-threat\">118 accidental drug overdose deaths\u003c/a> in the first two months of 2025, according to preliminary data from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The number of fatal overdoses this year — 57 in January and 61 in February — marks a significant uptick after four months of declines, with October seeing a low of 37.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie and other city officials are pushing for more aggressive responses to the city’s unprecedented drug crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the Board of Supervisors passed Lurie’s ordinance titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024579/luries-sf-fentanyl-emergency-ordinance-sails-through-its-first-test\">“Fentanyl State of Emergency,”\u003c/a> which gives the mayor’s office and other city agencies the authority to pursue city contracts and private donations to combat fentanyl use without supervisors’ approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie also ordered the Public Health Department last month to scale back harm reduction programs that provide people with safe smoking supplies in public spaces, instructing health officials to move distribution indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys said city officials need to consider more preventive measures when it comes to addressing drug abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we continue to approach this problem by sort of waiting till people are engaged in really dangerous behavior and then throwing a lot of resources at them, we’ll never come to the end of this,” Humphreys said. “We need to have fewer people entering into that cycle of harm and risk because we can’t really control these markets and make them safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Gilare Zada contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">scales back some harm reduction programs\u003c/a> amid the city’s crackdown on open-air drug markets, UCSF doctors are raising concerns and emphasizing the integral role that such public health strategies play in keeping drug users safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harm reduction, which aims to mitigate the risks of death and long-term damage associated with drug use, has spurred increasingly polarized debate between coalitions that support and oppose the strategy. However, doctors and policy experts say increasing collaboration is the best way to ensure public health for the whole city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harm reduction and treatment are like part and parcel of each other,” Dr. Ayesha Appa, an assistant professor of medicine at UCSF, said during a town hall on Thursday hosted by the Treatment on Demand Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that for one of her patients, “having relationships with people who are offering safer-use supplies allowed him to feel valued and then think, ‘I’m worth something. I can do this,’” and get on methadone, a medication used to treat opioid addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>November’s election results, though, show a city growing more concerned with getting drugs and drug users off the streets and out of public view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A harm reduction program representative speaks with people on a popular alleyway in the Tenderloin neighborhood to hand out Narcan, fentanyl detection packets and tinfoil to those who need them as a part of drug addiction outreach in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Nick Otto/Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>New \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> campaigned on public safety, saying the city needed to crack down on open-air drug markets. He and other candidates running against incumbent London Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008970/its-maddening-addiction-experts-cry-foul-at-mayoral-candidates-push-for-drug-arrests\">criticized\u003c/a> some of her efforts focused on harm reduction, including the shuttered Tenderloin Center, which was the city’s first publicly run overdose prevention site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Breed’s latter years as mayor, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">moved away\u003c/a> from a harm-reduction approach to the drug crisis, which progressive politicians had embraced. And in District 5, which includes the Tenderloin, voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013950/dean-preston-concedes-sf-district-5-race-to-bilal-mahmood-blasts-right-wing-pressure-groups\">ousted their progressive supervisor\u003c/a> in favor of a more moderate leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have a city that moved in a pragmatic direction – a lot of people are clearly unhappy with a number of things in the city, but a big part of what they’re unhappy about is drugs, homelessness, disorder, crime,” said Keith Humphreys, a drug policy expert and professor of psychiatry at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists and nonprofits who have advocated for harsher crackdowns on public drug use — and criticized the city for making it too “easy” for people to use drugs — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024579/luries-sf-fentanyl-emergency-ordinance-sails-through-its-first-test\">joined Lurie\u003c/a> during his first month in office to introduce his “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020848/now-sf-mayor-lurie-unveils-emergency-plans-drug-homelessness-crises\">Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen people suffering in the name of compassion and body autonomy, and it has to end,” said Gina McDonald, the co-founder of Mothers Against Drug Addiction and Deaths, who hosted the rally. “We believe that this fentanyl state of emergency ordinance is a state of emergency. It’s a five-alarm fire that needs to be mitigated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12032239 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240903-OverdoseResponse-42-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation gained wide approval from the Board of Supervisors, with only a single vote against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Lurie released more details on how he plans to use his expanded powers under the ordinance, which includes increasing treatment availability, clearing open-air drug markets and “reassess[ing] policies for distribution of fentanyl smoking supplies” — a service \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997957/heres-why-some-san-francisco-nonprofits-give-foil-and-pipes-to-drug-users\">provided by some city-funded nonprofits\u003c/a> that had drawn controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also worked with law enforcement to set up a mobile police command unit at the 16th Street BART station in the Mission, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">overnight police raids\u003c/a> at prominent drug markets have increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Supervisor Matt Dorsey introduced the “Recovery First Ordinance” at the end of February, which would make entirely stopping illicit drug use and attaining long-term treatment “the primary objective of the city’s drug policy.” In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/mattdorsey/status/1905468937963536639\">post on the social media platform X\u003c/a> on Friday criticizing the UCSF doctors, Dorsey wrote that abstinence-only approaches to ending drug use include medication-assisted treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push toward recovery-focused drug policy has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">unpopular with harm reduction advocates\u003c/a>, who say reducing efforts to give out safer smoking supplies like foil and pipes is “misguided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study from independent scientific research organization RTI International found that increased drug seizures by law enforcement also increased opioid overdose mortality. But Humphreys said what it fails to account for is the public health of non-drug users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998115\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/001_KQED_SOMABuprenorphineDelivery_03232023_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A psychiatric clinical pharmacist with the San Francisco Department of Public Health packs a backpack with harm reduction supplies before making deliveries to SROs and Permanent Supportive Housing in San Francisco on March 23, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of taking drug dealers off the street is not to change the overdose rate,” he told KQED. “The purpose is to make neighborhoods safe for families and get drug dealers off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said an integrated public health approach — which the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-drug-dealing-tenderloin-emergency-center-18132343.php\">has been working on for years\u003c/a> but continues to need more of — would combine a nighttime bust by police with onsite harm reduction services, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Europe, in cities that have closed down open-air things, the police and the public health people work side by side,” he told KQED. “Police will say we’re closing down this open-air drug corner and the dealers are ours and the users are yours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will arrest the people … but then drive the methadone vans saying, ‘Who wants treatment, who needs clean needles right here?’ They use it as an opportunity to engage people into care because your dealer’s gone, but you know you could get to treatment right this second.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033114 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/005_KQED_CarFreeMarketSt_01222020_8366_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four UCSF doctors who spoke about the importance of harm reduction on Thursday stressed the importance of linking harm reduction and treatment services by offering them in the same spaces and making the on-ramp to treatment less intimidating for drug users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said that reducing the distribution of safer drug supplies and medications that treat opioid addiction will make people less safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in the city, I have kids … so that allows me to understand people who say, ‘Why the hell are you handing out opioids to people with opioid use disorder …handing out supplies to people that help them use drugs?’” said Dr. Scott Steiger, a professor in the departments of Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF. “I could wave a magic wand and stop all of that, but we can’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This particular city has done this before and is very good at figuring out ways to be more inclusive, to bring people back into the larger community who are otherwise stigmatized or outsiders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> planted a flag in the overdose debate by ordering the San Francisco Public Health Department to scale back some harm reduction programs as part of efforts to address the city’s drug crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s latest move, following the announcement of an upcoming behavioral health facility at 822 Geary for people experiencing a mental health or drug crisis, comes amid nighttime law enforcement raids targeting entrenched drug markets and a \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/2025_03_OCME_Overdose_Report.pdf\">steady rise in overdose rates\u003c/a> since October 2024, according to data from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is specifically planning to cut back on publicly-funded programs that hand out safe smoking supplies, such as pipes, foil and straws, according to Department of Public Health Director Daniel Tsai, who announced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031847/sf-sees-decline-in-overdose-deaths-but-fentanyl-remains-a-major-threat\">most recent overdose data\u003c/a> at a press conference earlier this week. Clean needle exchanges and Narcan distribution will remain, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s directive has sparked controversy among health experts and harm reduction advocates, who say programs that offer supplies for safer smoking are proven to reduce overdoses and infections associated with drug use and can connect users to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This idea that if you make smoking supplies disappear, people are going to stop using — it’s a smokescreen and really misguided,” said Laura Guzman, executive director of the National Harm Reduction Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco contracts with the DOPE project, a program of NHRC, to distribute Narcan and other harm reduction supplies across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000177\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxes of Narcan, the overdose prevention drug, at a safe drug use pop-up site created by volunteers with Concerned Public Response in San Francisco on Aug. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These directives, unfortunately, are just responding to political perspectives,” Guzman continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fentanyl, an opioid about 50 times more potent than heroin, is the most common drug currently associated with overdose deaths in the city. The majority of fentanyl users in San Francisco and across California consume fentanyl by smoking, which is far less likely to lead to an overdose than injecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study found that fentanyl injection users were 40% more likely to experience a non-fatal overdose and 253% more likely to have bacterial or viral infections caused by needle use. While both methods can lead to an accidental overdose, addiction experts say that the shift to smoking fentanyl has likely kept overdose rates from being even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vladimir Andreyev, who used heroin for several years before turning to smoking fentanyl, has lived on San Francisco’s streets for more than a decade. Craving shelter after a rainy weekend, Andreyev recently stopped by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026575/a-new-triage-center-opened-in-san-francisco-but-questions-remain\">pop-up triage center\u003c/a> on Sixth Street because he heard he might be able to find a shelter bed.[aside postID=news_12026575 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“The only good thing about fentanyl was it helped me get off needles. The needle… that’s really depressing,” Andreyev, 42, told KQED while waiting for a ride to a shelter that a social worker at the center found for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzman said new fentanyl users tend to smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smoking supplies, in particular, engage communities that are not already engaged in needle exchange programs,” she said. “So that directive goes contrary to all evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s administration is doubling down on law enforcement to disrupt outdoor drug markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are actively dismantling the illegal drug markets as part of our ongoing commitment to public safety. San Franciscans deserve safe and clean streets,” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DanielLurie/status/1902799634722087069\">posted on social media platform X\u003c/a> on Thursday, after police arrested nearly 40 people for being near an outdoor drug market at Market and Van Ness streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the third overnight raid the city has carried out in recent weeks. Police surveillance has also increased on Sixth Street and near the 16th Street BART station. Some residents and officials have applauded the crackdown for at least temporarily clearing chaotic public areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you drive by there now, things are definitely better,” Supervisor Stephen Sherrill said at a recent press conference, referring to an overnight drug market raid that led to dozens of arrests at Jefferson Square Park. “Residents are rightfully hesitant to declare victory, and I don’t think anybody here is ready to declare victory at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029042\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/123_1-scaled-e1740692245681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"900\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers carried out a sweeping drug market raid on the evening of Feb. 26, 2025, in Jefferson Square Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sebastian Luke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police and supervisors have said that the actions have pushed dangerous activity to other areas, and they are developing longer-term deterrence strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andreyev, who sleeps outside near Sixth Street, has noticed the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s cleaned up a lot. I’ve had a lot of friends get arrested,” he said. “You just have to be careful and follow the rules [if you] don’t want to end up in jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overdose rates fluctuate, and no specific intervention can be easily attributed to increases or decreases on a month-to-month basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Department of Public Health told KQED that what matters is that overdose deaths “are preventable, and we must have a quick, accessible and effective treatment and sustainable recovery” to drive rates down “and make our communities healthier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple health experts said they are concerned that winding down some harm reduction programs while increasing enforcement could lead to a sustained increase in overdose rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2831697?resultClick=1\">study\u003c/a> released this week by RTI International, a nonpartisan research organization, found that overdose risk was significantly higher in the days shortly after police seized drugs in San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003cp>According to Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes, California doesn’t have a crisis in its jails, where record numbers of people have died even as the state’s jail population shrank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Saying people died in jails is a little bit of a misnomer,” said Barnes, who is also the president of the California State Sheriffs’ Association. “People who are dying in our care, and I can’t say this any other way; they’re not dying because they’re in jail. They are dying from things that are life choices, narcotics issues, poor health, cancer, other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that the numbers are going up because they’re just dying from issues that are related to the jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Barnes said he’s not concerned that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/11/retail-theft-proposition-36-election/\">Proposition 36\u003c/a>, a newly passed crime measure, is expected to reverse the trend of declining jail populations and put more people in jail, and he does not believe that the increase in headcount will lead to more in-custody deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside observers, academics and the families of people who died in jail argue the opposite: that California is about to witness a wave of jail deaths even worse than the last four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Proposition 36 (Passed)\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-GyDVB\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/GyDVB/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"675\" height=\"159\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Proposition 36\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-3xOy4\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/3xOy4/19/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"600\" height=\"662\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36, passed overwhelmingly by voters in November, will likely \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=36&year=2024\">increase county jail populations\u003c/a> by stiffening penalties for certain crimes and allowing district attorneys to charge some misdemeanors as felonies, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yusef Miller, who leads a group of families whose relatives died in San Diego jails, said more incarcerated people will put pressure on jail systems that are already ill-equipped to handle more inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been claiming that Proposition 36 is going to increase the jail population, of course, but they’re increasing it into an already failed and broken system where people’s lives are lost from neglect. If you put more pressure and more activity on this, it’s gonna fail even more,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/03/death-in-california-jails/\">Justice Department statistics\u003c/a>, a surge in overdoses drove the trend of increasing jail deaths. The other leading causes were suicide and the catch-all term “natural causes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jails are responsible for inmates’ health care, but former jail medical staff have complained of overwork and burnout, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/03/death-in-california-jails/\">especially since the pandemic\u003c/a>. Many jail prisoners require complex care. More than half of them \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/county-jails-house-fewer-inmates-but-over-half-face-mental-health-issues/\">have mental health needs\u003c/a>, according to a 2023 study by the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, when 156 people died in the custody of California jails, \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/we-investigated-the-crisis-in-californias-jails-now-the-governor-calls-for-more-oversight\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> pledged that the state would take a stronger hand to prevent deaths in the 57 jail systems run by California county sheriffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each of the following four years, more people died in California jails than when Newsom made that pledge — hitting a high of 215 in 2022. Tulare, San Diego, Kern, Riverside and San Bernardino counties’ jails set records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of July, 68 people had died in California jails this year, according to the most recent data available from the Justice Department, which declined to provide CalMatters with updated numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians for Safety and Justice, a nonprofit that seeks to reduce prison and jail spending, estimated that \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/cost-tool/\">Proposition 36 will add 130,000 more people\u003c/a> to California jails each year, about 100,000 of them held in jail before trial and about 30,000 serving one-year sentences after their convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all of those people would be held at the same time. In June 2024, the average daily jail population statewide was 56,795 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michele Deitch, director of the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, said it’s likely, if not a certainty, that more people will die in jails as jail populations grow. And, she said, there will be cumulative effects on counties as the expenses pile up from additional inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having more people means a more overcrowded situation, which means that the dynamics inside change,” Deitch said. “It could lead to more deaths. And the counties are going to very quickly realize how expensive it is to keep that number of people in jail. They’re going to have to develop strategies like (pre-trial diversion programs) to keep overcrowding down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why voters backed Proposition 36\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 was a rightward swing of the California political pendulum – a decade ago, voters eased criminal penalties for certain crimes under 2014’s Proposition 47, which was pitched as both a cost-saving measure and a more effective way to combat crime by focusing dollars on treatment instead of incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, during the pandemic, the rate of shoplifting and commercial burglaries skyrocketed, especially in Los Angeles, Alameda, San Mateo and Sacramento counties. Statewide, reported shoplifting of merchandise worth up to $950 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/commercial-burglaries-fell-in-2023-but-shoplifting-continued-to-rise/\">soared 28% over the past five years\u003c/a>, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. That’s the highest observed level since 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/041524_SF-Retail-Theft_LE_CM_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/041524_SF-Retail-Theft_LE_CM_2.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/041524_SF-Retail-Theft_LE_CM_2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/041524_SF-Retail-Theft_LE_CM_2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/041524_SF-Retail-Theft_LE_CM_2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A security guard stands by the front entrance of a luxury retail storefront in downtown San Francisco on April 15, 2024. Retail theft has plagued the area, and numerous storefronts sit vacant. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Combining shoplifting with commercial burglaries, the institute’s researchers found that total reported thefts were 18% higher than in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors, law enforcement and big-box retailers \u003ca href=\"https://www.davisenterprise.com/news/county_government/yolo-officials-report-continued-problems-under-prop-47/article_007fa097-0ef7-5861-98c4-4a2896452052.html\">blamed Proposition 47\u003c/a> and successfully urged the public to vote for Proposition 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes’ jail system in Orange County had a record 18 people die inside in 2021. In 2023, that number was down to six. This year, so far, eight people have died in Orange County jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Orange County, we have several thousand available (jail) beds,” Barnes said. “Other counties may be impacted because they may not have capacity. They may just have to release people earlier because they don’t have the space for an incoming population to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s not as simple as saying that populations go up and, I guess (given) the law of averages, that more people will die. I don’t think that’s true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California gradually increases jail oversight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2011, California — as it thinned severely overcrowded state prisons by sending tens of thousands of recently convicted offenders to county-run jails — created an oversight board for prisons and jails. This 13-member Board of State and Community Corrections is composed mostly of people with law enforcement and probation experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters reported earlier this year that a civilian member of the oversight board felt that their work amounted to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/03/death-in-california-jails/\">little more than a rubber stamp\u003c/a> sanctioning the actions of sheriffs and their deputies when people died in their custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018621\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/121424_BSCC-Session_KC_CM_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/121424_BSCC-Session_KC_CM_3.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/121424_BSCC-Session_KC_CM_3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/121424_BSCC-Session_KC_CM_3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/121424_BSCC-Session_KC_CM_3-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DeAna Serna displays poster boards of loved ones who died in jail at a listening session hosted by the In-Custody Death Review Division with the Board of State and Community Corrections in Escondido on Dec. 14, 2024. Serna’s sister, Elisa Serna, died in a San Diego jail in 2019. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The board has responded to public and legislative pressure by conducting more unannounced jail inspections, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bscc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/inspectionprocess.pdf\">change from past practice\u003c/a> when it would visit jails just once every two years and tell jail authorities in advance when inspectors were coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new law that went into effect this year adds a staff position to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB519\">review in-custody deaths\u003c/a>. That staffer is hosting \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/12/california-jail-deaths-listening-sessions/\">listening sessions\u003c/a> with the public in at least two cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the oversight board said the board had not talked to local law enforcement about a potential increase in county jail populations as a result of Proposition 36, nor has it done a “formal analysis for impact.” But the board will make in-custody death data statewide available to the public next year, the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller, who works with the San Diego families whose relatives died in jails, doubts that the state oversight board or the counties will raise the alarm if people continue to die in jails at the rate they have been since the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it’s rolling out in their big promises that it’s not gonna be as terrible as we know it’s going to be, we still have to hold them accountable and make sure that a microscopic eye is on what they do,” Miller said. “That’s the only hope I see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> pledged that the state would take a stronger hand to prevent deaths in the 57 jail systems run by California county sheriffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each of the following four years, more people died in California jails than when Newsom made that pledge — hitting a high of 215 in 2022. Tulare, San Diego, Kern, Riverside and San Bernardino counties’ jails set records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of July, 68 people had died in California jails this year, according to the most recent data available from the Justice Department, which declined to provide CalMatters with updated numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians for Safety and Justice, a nonprofit that seeks to reduce prison and jail spending, estimated that \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/cost-tool/\">Proposition 36 will add 130,000 more people\u003c/a> to California jails each year, about 100,000 of them held in jail before trial and about 30,000 serving one-year sentences after their convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all of those people would be held at the same time. In June 2024, the average daily jail population statewide was 56,795 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michele Deitch, director of the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, said it’s likely, if not a certainty, that more people will die in jails as jail populations grow. And, she said, there will be cumulative effects on counties as the expenses pile up from additional inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having more people means a more overcrowded situation, which means that the dynamics inside change,” Deitch said. “It could lead to more deaths. And the counties are going to very quickly realize how expensive it is to keep that number of people in jail. They’re going to have to develop strategies like (pre-trial diversion programs) to keep overcrowding down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why voters backed Proposition 36\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 was a rightward swing of the California political pendulum – a decade ago, voters eased criminal penalties for certain crimes under 2014’s Proposition 47, which was pitched as both a cost-saving measure and a more effective way to combat crime by focusing dollars on treatment instead of incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, during the pandemic, the rate of shoplifting and commercial burglaries skyrocketed, especially in Los Angeles, Alameda, San Mateo and Sacramento counties. Statewide, reported shoplifting of merchandise worth up to $950 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/commercial-burglaries-fell-in-2023-but-shoplifting-continued-to-rise/\">soared 28% over the past five years\u003c/a>, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. That’s the highest observed level since 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/041524_SF-Retail-Theft_LE_CM_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/041524_SF-Retail-Theft_LE_CM_2.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/041524_SF-Retail-Theft_LE_CM_2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/041524_SF-Retail-Theft_LE_CM_2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/041524_SF-Retail-Theft_LE_CM_2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A security guard stands by the front entrance of a luxury retail storefront in downtown San Francisco on April 15, 2024. Retail theft has plagued the area, and numerous storefronts sit vacant. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Combining shoplifting with commercial burglaries, the institute’s researchers found that total reported thefts were 18% higher than in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors, law enforcement and big-box retailers \u003ca href=\"https://www.davisenterprise.com/news/county_government/yolo-officials-report-continued-problems-under-prop-47/article_007fa097-0ef7-5861-98c4-4a2896452052.html\">blamed Proposition 47\u003c/a> and successfully urged the public to vote for Proposition 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes’ jail system in Orange County had a record 18 people die inside in 2021. In 2023, that number was down to six. This year, so far, eight people have died in Orange County jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Orange County, we have several thousand available (jail) beds,” Barnes said. “Other counties may be impacted because they may not have capacity. They may just have to release people earlier because they don’t have the space for an incoming population to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s not as simple as saying that populations go up and, I guess (given) the law of averages, that more people will die. I don’t think that’s true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California gradually increases jail oversight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2011, California — as it thinned severely overcrowded state prisons by sending tens of thousands of recently convicted offenders to county-run jails — created an oversight board for prisons and jails. This 13-member Board of State and Community Corrections is composed mostly of people with law enforcement and probation experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters reported earlier this year that a civilian member of the oversight board felt that their work amounted to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/03/death-in-california-jails/\">little more than a rubber stamp\u003c/a> sanctioning the actions of sheriffs and their deputies when people died in their custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018621\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/121424_BSCC-Session_KC_CM_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/121424_BSCC-Session_KC_CM_3.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/121424_BSCC-Session_KC_CM_3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/121424_BSCC-Session_KC_CM_3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/121424_BSCC-Session_KC_CM_3-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DeAna Serna displays poster boards of loved ones who died in jail at a listening session hosted by the In-Custody Death Review Division with the Board of State and Community Corrections in Escondido on Dec. 14, 2024. Serna’s sister, Elisa Serna, died in a San Diego jail in 2019. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The board has responded to public and legislative pressure by conducting more unannounced jail inspections, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bscc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/inspectionprocess.pdf\">change from past practice\u003c/a> when it would visit jails just once every two years and tell jail authorities in advance when inspectors were coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new law that went into effect this year adds a staff position to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB519\">review in-custody deaths\u003c/a>. That staffer is hosting \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/12/california-jail-deaths-listening-sessions/\">listening sessions\u003c/a> with the public in at least two cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the oversight board said the board had not talked to local law enforcement about a potential increase in county jail populations as a result of Proposition 36, nor has it done a “formal analysis for impact.” But the board will make in-custody death data statewide available to the public next year, the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller, who works with the San Diego families whose relatives died in jails, doubts that the state oversight board or the counties will raise the alarm if people continue to die in jails at the rate they have been since the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it’s rolling out in their big promises that it’s not gonna be as terrible as we know it’s going to be, we still have to hold them accountable and make sure that a microscopic eye is on what they do,” Miller said. “That’s the only hope I see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>One outgoing supervisor is calling on the city to harmonize public health and law enforcement’s approach to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/overdose-crisis\">overdose crisis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although overdose deaths have dipped 20% to date this year compared to 2023, San Francisco continues to face an epidemic-level drug overdose crisis. Supervisor Dean Preston, who lost his reelection bid earlier this month, released a report on Tuesday that offers a blueprint for how San Francisco can emulate an approach used in Zurich, Switzerland – one of San Francisco’s sister cities that similarly struggled with an opioid crisis in the 1990s, but has since become an international model for overdose prevention and reducing drug-related crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is making sure the Department of Public Health, the Police Department, homeless services and others at the table are actually pursuing a unified approach, and we do not have anything like that in San Francisco right now,” Preston told KQED. “My hope is that this is a top priority for not only the new mayor but for incoming supervisors also.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After implementing a “Four Pillars Strategy” that unites prevention, treatment, harm reduction and law enforcement, overdose deaths in Zurich decreased by 50% from 1991 to 2010, according to Stanford Social Innovation Review, along with a 65% decrease in HIV infections, and 80% decrease in new heroin users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF addiction expert Daniel Ciccarone has studied safe consumption sites in Zurich and around the globe. He said the report offers a “rational, clear-minded policy analysis that the city needs for this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beauty of this report is it gives us an opportunity to look at evidence-based approaches and move the city forward,” he said. “There is no good ‘Plan B.’ Relying on police interventions is not sustainable, and bribing or threatening people into treatment does not work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several differences could make implementation look different between San Francisco and Zurich, including that the Swiss city is about half the size of San Francisco, has a smaller homeless population, and has more medication-assisted treatment options legally available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by the success in Zurich, Preston requested that the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst office produce the report on how San Francisco might replicate that success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks to a local resident at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13, 2024, while campaigning for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Do we need to do exactly everything that Zurich has done? No. But the defining feature of their Four Pillars approach is that all of these relevant departments are working on each pillar,” he said. “They don’t just work to put Band-Aids on a situation or reactive crisis response. They actually have both a short and long-term plan for success, and that’s what this city has really been lacking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the top of the report’s recommendations is a call for all departments working on overdose issues to coordinate – a seemingly simple task but one that the city has struggled to achieve throughout the current overdose crisis. For example, when the city opened up a temporary overdose prevention center in 2022, police fined some drug users for carrying publicly-funded harm reduction supplies that were provided at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie plans to initiate a state of emergency for the fentanyl crisis when he takes office in January, which Preston said could be an opportunity to implement the report’s recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s unclear exactly what the incoming mayor will do with the emergency powers. Lurie ran on a platform of increasing drug treatment availability, improving behavioral health interventions and creating more supportive housing, as well as using ankle monitors on first-time drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am in the process of setting up a meeting with Mayor-elect Lurie to go over this,” Preston said. “A culture shift needs to happen, but it’s all doable. And one of the problems right now is we just are not pursuing a unified approach to solve this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11909488\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait in line to get into the Tenderloin Linkage Center in San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie wouldn’t be the first to declare a state of emergency, which allows the city to bypass certain bureaucratic steps to release and direct urgently needed resources. In December 2021, Mayor London Breed declared an emergency in the Tenderloin, a neighborhood with the highest rate of overdose deaths in the city. It allowed Breed to call in federal law enforcement agencies to help slow the flow of fentanyl into the city and arrest drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her emergency order, the city temporarily opened up a safe consumption site in 2022, called the Tenderloin Center, a medically supervised space where drug users could get off the street and get free meals, showers and other basic necessities. More than 300 people visited the center daily, and health professionals reversed 100% of overdoses that occurred on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safe consumption site was intended to be temporary, and the city closed it after about 10 months following public criticism and scrutiny from local businesses who complained about long lines outside extending into United Nations Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, San Francisco released an Overdose Prevention Plan that called for opening up replacement centers in more dispersed wellness hubs around the city. However, today, efforts to open such centers remain at a standstill and political willpower to make them happen has waned in anticipation of President Donald Trump’s second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12000161 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/021_SanFrancisco_StFrancisER_08262021_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Budget and Legislative Analyst’s report also recommends that the city open up safe consumption sites and coordinate with law enforcement to help people move safely indoors and reduce drug use in public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the report also calls for expanding medication-assisted treatment, like buprenorphine, which helps curb cravings and withdrawal symptoms for people struggling with opioid addiction. The city has increased access to this type of therapy by reducing barriers, such as providing medication treatment on demand to residents in permanent supportive housing and expanding the city’s behavioral health pharmacy hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re starting to see more people accept treatment, whether it’s abstinence-based, buprenorphine or methadone,” Mayor London Breed told reporters at a Monday press conference about the city’s overdose response. “The people are out there doing the work and making sure that folks know it’s not a one-size-fits-all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, about 75% of Zurich residents with opioid addiction take medication for opioid use disorder. But in San Francisco, only about 25% of people struggling with opioid use disorder are connected to medication-assisted treatments, according to the BLA report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because many people struggling with opioid addiction may not know that the treatment options exist, said San Francisco resident Juliana Gurrola Nuño, who is now part of the city’s public health campaign \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014134/sf-launches-media-campaign-to-promote-addiction-treatment-and-recovery-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014134/sf-launches-media-campaign-to-promote-addiction-treatment-and-recovery-services\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">promoting available drug treatment and stories of San Franciscans\u003c/a> who benefitted from recovery services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are services available to help you start your recovery journey, even if it’s just taking the first small step. But not every person struggling with addiction knows about these resources,” she told reporters at the news conference. “I know that when I was in my addiction, I had no idea of any of these services. I want to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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