The number of COVID-19 deaths from drug overdoses this year in San Francisco has risen by a margin of three to one, as deaths related to the powerful painkiller fentanyl have risen.
In 2020 alone, drug overdoses killed 621 people in San Francisco, while the number of coronavirus deaths was 173, according to an Associated Press report.
According to local reports in the San Francisco Chronicle, narcissism was used 3,000 times this year from January to November by the city’s Drug Overdose Prevention and Education (DOPE) project, with people nearly dying from overdoses of fentanyl or related opioid abuse substances.
The DOPE added the number probably excluded more accounts of Nar Narkan usage because their records only count self-reports.
Narkan is a drug nasal spray used to counteract the effects of critical pioid overdose in severe situations where the user may die if left untreated.
In San Francisco, drug overdoses killed about 441 people last year, a 70 percent increase over 2018. In addition, in the year 2019, 2,610 people were dispersed in Narkan city.
Experts say the crisis is caused by the overflow of fentanyl flowing in large cities.
Nationally, the United States is close to 320,000 COVID-19 deaths.
At the same time, the ioopoid epidemic has worsened, although the incidence of death is lower than that of COVID-19.
While not all data for 2020 are publicly available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released 1,001,000 drug overdose deaths in the 12 months ending May, indicating the highest levels recorded in a single year.
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