San Francisco Is On Track to Have a Record Year for Accidental Overdose Deaths

Published on November 21, 2023

Drug overdose death is a crisis in San Francisco, and this year the city is on track to break its record for accidental overdose deaths. So far this year, from January through September, there have been 620 overdose deaths recorded with 506 attributed to fentanyl, the San Francisco Chief Medical Examiner stated in an Accidental Drug Overdose Data report. The city is on track to reach over 800 overdose deaths by the end of 2023. The city began publishing monthly reports of overdose deaths in 2020, and that year holds the record with 726 people dying due to drugs. More people died of overdose than of COVID-19 in 2020, stated the San Francisco Department of Public Health in their 2022 Overdose Prevention Plan Report....

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