Historic Bay Area district littered with needles, sees droves of overdoses

Fonte: New York Post

Nearly 1,400 discarded needles have been collected around a pair of plazas in San Francisco’s Mission District as the city seeks to clean its streets and stave off drug overdoses. Supervisor Jackie Fielder, whose district includes the two BART plazas, told Mission Local that since January, community ambassadors have handled as many as 1,538 hostile street situations. The ambassadors — street workers who respond to certain emergency calls — also reversed 15 drug overdoses and collected 1,390 needles, she said.