BART grapples with the opioid crisis as overdose deaths in system hit new high

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BART grapples with the opioid crisis as overdose deaths in system hit new high
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The Bay Area's drug crisis is increasingly landing on the region's largest transit system as users ride BART to San Francisco to buy cheap drugs in the Tenderloin.

The Bay Area's drug crisis is increasingly landing on the region's largest transit system. Suspected overdose deaths on

knows the drug crisis is coursing through the transit system. RELATED: Report: Fentanyl deaths in San Francisco surge; City on track to surpass previous totalsSo far this year, 20 people have died on trains, in stations, or somewhere else on is responding is with 19 of these specialists. They are part of an effort to deploy as many different uniformed bodies as possible, both to respond to people in trouble and as a deterrent to keep drugs out.Related: Fentanyl accounts for over half of seized illegal drugs in 2023, San Francisco police say'Police officers crisis intervention specialists,' said

passengers might remember back in 2018 when cell phone video of a Civic Center Station hallway lined with incapacitated drug users made national headlines and prompted emergency discussions between mayors, police agencies, and

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