The policy change is part of Lurie’s Breaking the ... A harm reduction activist from the San Francisco Aids Foundation distributes needles for intravenous drug use. These activists had certainly met ...

Some are skeptical the policy will work. SAN FRANCISCO - In San Francisco, Mayor Daniel Lurie announced a big change in drug policy. City-funded programs will no longer be able to distribute safe-use ...

“harm reduction” was official policy in San Francisco. As a formerly homeless heroin and fentanyl addict in recovery, I saw firsthand how this policy, which tried to make illegal drug use “safer,” ...

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Editor’s note: This is the first part in a two-part series examining how San Francisco’s reevaluation of drug policy could ... supportive housing policies could change in the coming years.

Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University who served as a drug policy adviser in the Obama administration, said San Francisco’s change in paraphernalia distribution is ...

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said the city's drug overdose crisis requires a bolder approach to getting illicit drug ...

San Francisco Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy Tung said a top priority for the state party is ensuring the city's police department is operating at full capacity.

Want the latest on the Mission and San Francisco? Sign up for our free daily newsletter below. Sign up The policy will also prohibit any distribution of clean drug supplies in public spaces. During ...