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Supervisors adopt overdose‑prevention policy submissions for city departments and grantees; members call for broader harm‑reduction steps
Summary
The board received and adopted departmental overdose‑prevention policies and directed continued partnerships with providers; supervisors urged wider distribution of naloxone and fentanyl test strips amid rising overdose fatalities and recent local deaths.
The Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution March 8 receiving overdose prevention policies submitted by city departments and their grantees, and recording how those entities will promote strategies intended to reduce drug overdoses.
Supervisor Hillary Ronan used the item to urge stronger, citywide harm‑reduction measures after a recent local cluster of fatal overdoses involving presumed fentanyl. Ronan described the deaths of three young people in her district who likely consumed cocaine laced with fentanyl and called for wider access to…
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