opiods Archives

Shelves stacked with small boxes of menstrual products and other items.

Health & Environment

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

by Natalie Orenstein Sept. 28, 2023, 9:15 a.m.Sept. 28, 2023, 5:47 p.m.

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

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.

Health & Environment

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

by Ariel Boone Oct. 14, 2021, 5:42 p.m.Oct. 18, 2021, 9:59 a.m.

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.