As Drug Overdoses Hit All-Time High, Mayor Breed Proposes New Street Response Team
San Francisco has seen drug overdoses skyrocket over the past year a statistic only made worse by the pandemic. To address the crisis, Mayor Breed announced plans to create a new Street Overdose Response Team (SORT) to mitigate the number of future drug-related deaths.
2020 saw two pandemics emerge: one spurred by a novel pathogen, the other created by the widespread manufacturing (and use) of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. In San Francisco specifically, nearly 700 people lost their lives to fentanyl overdoses last year, marking an all-time high since the opioid crisis began about twenty years ago. But Mayor Breed’s announcement Friday of the proposed City-funded crisis team SORT would offer help in contending with San Francisco’s spike in drug overdoses.
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