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UCSF pharmacy students urge San Francisco to back safe injection sites and opioid public‑health ordinance

San Francisco Health Commission · November 5, 2019
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Summary

Groups of UCSF pharmacy students and other public commenters told the Health Commission they support a Supervisor‑introduced ordinance (190,984) and state bills enabling supervised safe injection sites, arguing the sites reduce infectious‑disease transmission and provide overdose response and treatment linkages.

Dozens of student pharmacists and public‑health trainees spoke during the commission’s public‑comment period to urge support for local and state measures to address opioid use and prevent overdose.

Brian Gack and other UCSF pharmacy students asked the commission to support ordinance 190,984 (introduced by Supervisor Haney), a proposal that would ask DPH to treat the opioid crisis as a public‑health emergency…

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