Tue, 21-Oct-2025

San Francisco declares downtown emergency over drug deaths

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SAN FRANCISCO,  (AFP) – San Francisco’s mayor on Friday declared a state of emergency in a downtown district reeling from a severe spike in fatal drug overdoses driven mainly by fentanyl. The Tenderloin neighborhood, just south of tourist and shopping hotspot Union Square, has emerged as the city’s epicenter of an opioid crisis that has … Read more