Smoking fentanyl more common than injecting in SF

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The researchers said it’s an effort to control potency and avoid overdoses

San Franciscans struggling with fentanyl addiction have increasingly pivoted away from injecting the drug to smoking it instead, according to new research from UCSF published this week.

Holm’s team interviewed more than 30 people recruited from three syringe service programs in The City, including the Tenderloin Center prior to its 2022 closure. “A lot of people dabble with smoking or snorting prior to injection,” she said. “Once people inject they tend to stick with it, not only because it's the most efficient method…but also, people talk about this affinity for the process, they call it ‘being hooked on the needle.’”

Battle over Prop. 22 heads to California Supreme Court California’s highest court will hear arguments on the law that declared Uber and DoorDash drivers to be independent contractors “That was a really early lightbulb moment of, ‘Something is going on,’” Holm said. “Even the residue or the resin itself could be enough to cause a potential overdose of an opioid-naive person.”

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