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Oakland Police Commission leadership conflict | The cost of free eggs | How should the county address the opioid crisis? | Rift in local NAACP

Tag: drug overdoses

Shelves stacked with small boxes of menstrual products and other items.
Posted inHealth & Environment

How should Alameda County spend $40M meant to address the opioid crisis?

Natalie Orenstein headshot by Natalie Orenstein September 28, 2023September 28, 2023

The county asked for community input this month on programs that could treat addiction, reduce harm, and more.

Posted inAmplify Oakland

Helping East Bay residents avoid overdose, without judgment

by Sabrina Fuentes August 31, 2023August 31, 2023

Oakland-based case manager Sabrina Fuentes draws on personal experience to assist people navigating homelessness and addiction.

Posted inHealth & Environment

Oakland could establish safe injection sites to prevent overdoses

Darwin BondGraham by Darwin BondGraham August 4, 2022August 4, 2022

If approved by Gov. Newsom, Oakland, Los Angeles, and San Francisco could operate supervised facilities where addiction treatment and health resources are also available.

Candles create a vigil outside the tent of an unhoused community member who was shot in West Oakland—one example of many in which unsheltered people grieve the loss of friends and family members on the street.
Posted inHealth & Environment

‘Invisible’ overdoses are hiding the true scale of Alameda County’s opioid crisis

by Ariel Boone October 14, 2021October 18, 2021

Far from being passive victims, opioid users on Oakland streets use Narcan to save each other’s lives by the hundreds each year. But those rescues go uncounted by the government.

Posted inHealth & Environment

Opioid overdoses are up, posing another health challenge for unhoused people

by Ariel Boone September 14, 2021September 17, 2021

As COVID intensifies the overdose crisis in Alameda County and elsewhere, harm reduction advocates step in where government lags.

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