A proposal that would allow San Francisco's homeless outreach teams to provide medication to opioid addicts — on the street, and not in a pharmacy — is gaining momentum at the state level.
City and state officials gathered in San Francisco on Friday celebrate the recent progress made by the state proposal. The bill has passed out of committee and is now headed to the full Assembly for a vote. If the bill is signed into law, they hope it can assuage the addiction epidemic that has led to a surge in opioid overdose deaths in San Francisco in recent years.
"Stopping the fentanyl crisis that's playing out on our streets is my top priority," Haney said in a statement."This bill will bring medication where it's needed most and will help get people off the streets and into recovery." How much California's population dropped in 2022 The state population took a hit when the pandemic first began, but the decline has begun to slow in the last year or so
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