Just days after his arrival at the Taylor Street Center in the Tenderloin, Melvin Bulauan was dead. His body was found a ...

Tenvie Therapeutics, a biotechnology company committed to engineering small molecules that transform the treatment of neurological diseases, today announced the appointment of Tony Estrada, Ph.D., as ...

San Francisco County Jail has a dedicated program for incarcerated U.S. Military Veterans, C.O.V.E.R., which provides therapy, treatment, and healing, and is a model for other counties to follow.

The city is dealing with an elevated number of homeless people and drug users near its international airport as a new mayor ...

San Francisco has pioneered harm reduction and fought for years against abstinence-based programs. The number of drug overdoses increased this year.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Reeling from drug overdose deaths and scenes of people smoking fentanyl on sidewalks, San Francisco moved closer Thursday to adopting a “recovery first” drug policy that ...

Mayor London Breed to tackle substance abuse and addiction in San Francisco. The plan is to give drug tests, treatment to individuals receiving assistance.

The new policy, to take effect April 30, marks a dramatic shift from the strategies San Francisco has used in recent years to encourage — but not pressure — illicit drug users into treatment ...

San Francisco will no longer allow the distribution of safe drug use supplies, including sterile syringes and smoking kits, unless the outfits distributing the supplies offer counseling services or ...

That approach not only enabled illegal drug use but also diverted resources from effective treatment. For example, the California State Department of Public Health granted one San Francisco nonprofit ...

Similarly, San Francisco spent more than $20 million on a center promised to link people with addiction treatment. Instead, its operator set up a supervised drug-consumption site.