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

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

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 psyc...

The Bay

February 13, 20192m 0s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (podtrac.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

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

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices