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Meth on Monday, Heroin on Friday: San Francisco Sees A New Drug Wave

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Methamphetamine is back. The toll the drug is taking on the city’s public health, emergency response and police departments is now spurring Mayor London Breed to address the epidemic. (Daniel Roland/Getty Images)

The opioid crisis has dominated the news, but there is growing evidence that methamphetamine has made a return to San Francisco. Overdoses from meth have more than doubled and about half the people admitted to San Francisco General Hospital with a psychiatric emergency are high on meth. Some health experts think the two drug crises could be related.

Guest: April Dembosky, health correspondent for KQED

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