A new plan to help combat SanFrancisco's deadly fentanyl epidemic launches Monday with resources from the CHP and California National Guard coming into the city to assist local law enforcement, officials announced Friday. opioids
, but didn’t expand on how the program would work.
The California National Guard said it won’t be adding boots on the ground, but rather working behind the scenes. The new initiative comes as San Francisco continues to reel from a staggering drug overdose crisis. More than 600 people a year have recently died from accidental overdoses in the city – the vast majority from fentanyl.
"This has to stop," Police Chief Bill Scott said. "People are fed up with it. We’re fed up with it. And our attention needs to be on the people who are causing the problems."
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