The Assembly approved a controversial bill allowing Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco to set up places where opioid users could legally inject drugs in supervised settings.
The Los Angeles Unified School District is issuing a strong warning about drug use after three girls from the Santa Monica area ingested ecstasy pills that were likely laced with fentanyl.
The U.S. Justice Department under the Biden administration recently signaled it might be open to allowing the sites with"appropriate guardrails," a turnaround from the Trump administration that won a lawsuit blocking a safe consumption site in Philadelphia.But it had bipartisan opposition amid a sometimes personal debate.
But some members of each party said the sites only make things worse, as lawmakers cited dueling statistics from locations in other nations. About 700 San Franciscans died of accidental drug overdoses in 2020, a record. Those deaths"far exceeded the number of individuals who died of COVID-19" in 2020, when 261 deaths from the coronavirus were recorded, San Francisco Mayor London Breed noted. She cited skyrocketing drug overdose rates in her declaration of an emergency in the Tenderloin neighborhood.
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