San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is scaling back a key part of the city’s harm reduction strategy: the free distribution of clean foil pipes and plastic straws in public settings. These supplies are typically used to smoke fentanyl or methamphetamines. We talk to addiction specialists about how this policy change might impact drug use in the city.
San Francisco Scales Back Harm Reduction Policy
A drug user looks at the package of Narcan she was handed by Paul Harkin, director of harm reduction at GLIDE who was walking the streets to handout narcan, fentanyl detection packets and tinfoil to those drug users in need as a part of outreach on the streets of San Francisco. (Nick Otto for the Washington Post)
Guests:
Keith Humphreys, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Stanford School of Medicine
Tyler TerMeer, CEO, San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Sydney Johnson, reporter, KQED News
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