The million dollar streets strewn with bodies contorted by the effects of fentanyl – By Martha Kelner (SKY News) / May 4, 2023
Drug-related deaths surged by 41% in San Francisco in the first three months of this year – with an average of one person dying of an accidental overdose every 10 hours. The drug-ravaged Tenderloin district is worst affected.
Bodies are strewn on the doorstep of San Francisco’s main government building, contorted by the effects of fentanyl, a painkiller 100 times more potent than morphine.
We’re two streets away from the headquarters of Twitter, in a city district with more billionaires than anywhere on Earth, but this has become an open-air drug market.
Trevor Pearson has been addicted to opiates for 10 years, first heroin and now fentanyl. He wants everyone to know of the devastation.
“The fact that this isn’t a main issue, on TV every night, is insane to us,” he says.
