In this week's Meet the Candidates, we ask eight District 9 hopefuls what they would do to reduce overdose deaths in San Francisco.
Welcome back to our “Meet the candidates” series, in which District 9 supervisorial hopefuls respond to a question in 100 words or fewer.Establish a Drug Buy Back Program. We can all agree that the number one goal is to get drugs off the streets. My proposal will encourage people to surrender fentanyl or fentanyl-laced drugs for cash. The cashback value will be higher than the street market price of the drugs turned in.
Portugal put decisions about drug policy into the hands of public health experts, and the result was 100,000 people in recovery. Mobile clinics, medicated assisted therapies , public education campaigns, street outreach, language access, wellness hubs, more dual diagnosis beds, research, tracking outcomes, and most importantly, staffing up so we can provide treatment 24/7 are all priorities for me.Addiction is a disease of isolation. Harm reduction by itself does not work.
A “Whole City” approach to overdose prevention means strengthened community engagement and social support for people at high risk, alternatives to drug use and solutions for deeper, undiagnosed health issues that are part of the city’s mental health crisis.We need to open storefront drug consumption sites along with using an RV for users to safely inject or inhale substances, with trained staff present to assist in the event of bad reaction or overdose.
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