IN-DEPTH: Mom Struggles to Break Chains of Son’s Fentanyl Addiction

Jacqui Berlinn makes her way through a crowd of ski mask-clad drug dealers on a street corner in San Francisco. She’s looking for her son, Corey, who is homeless and addicted to fentanyl. In the city’s infamous Tenderloin district, dealers brazenly sell their illicit wares in open-air drug markets. She walks for hours on a cold, windy night in February, passing makeshift shelters and tents on pipe-and-needle-strewn sidewalks along her way to find him. In the shadows of City Hall, she approaches a group of homeless young men huddled at an encampment as a drug dealer patrols the area....