A group of Bay Area mothers have paid to put up a huge billboard in Union Square Monday, highlighting extensive drug problems in San Francisco.
“Our greatest concern is people will come to the city where there are dirty needles and feces and people using drugs openly and leftover fentanyl and children will get a hold of it,” said Jacquee Berlinn, Co-Founder of Mothers Against Drug Deaths.“My son is an addict on the streets of San Francisco,” she said.“He says lately so many people are coming in and buying fentanyl to bring back to the suburbs, even high school kids are coming in to buy fentanyl,” she said.
“Anyway, they have to arrive is definitely dangerous for them. The drug dealing is out of control and unchecked,” he said. Mesnick he shot a video Saturday, in which he said is proof of the pervasive drug problem. He added that a man apparently overdosed on the street and a good Samaritan jumped in to help him.Mesnick said he supports the mothers’ efforts to bring the problem to the forefront.
Berlinn said her group won’t stop with the billboard in Union Square. They plan to launch an international campaign as well.
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