{"id":1557,"date":"2024-02-10T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T10:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/a-city-in-crisis-how-fentanyl-devastated-san-francisco-bbc-newsnight\/"},"modified":"2024-02-10T10:56:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T10:56:36","slug":"a-city-in-crisis-how-fentanyl-devastated-san-francisco-bbc-newsnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/a-city-in-crisis-how-fentanyl-devastated-san-francisco-bbc-newsnight\/","title":{"rendered":"A city in crisis: How fentanyl devastated San Francisco &#8211; BBC Newsnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GWBzxr3c29s?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>More people died of drug overdoses than of Covid in San Francisco over a one year period. Why has one of the richest cities in the world been devastated by drugs? Please subscribe HERE http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>Fentanyl is 100 times stronger than morphine and even a tiny quantity can kill. But its low cost has made it a popular recreational drug.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the city were placed into a state of emergency in December to crackdown on overdose deaths.<\/p>\n<p>And after defunding the police, the city\u2019s mayor has now refunded the police to tackle the issue.<\/p>\n<p>But the democratic mayor and democratic District Attorney are divided on how to fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p>James Clayton reports for Our World and Newsnight.<\/p>\n<p>#Newsnight #BBCNews #BBC<\/p>\n<p>Newsnight is the BBC&#8217;s flagship news and current affairs TV programme &#8211; with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews. <\/p>\n<p>Website: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsnight<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNewsnight<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnewsnight<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GWBzxr3c29s\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More people died of drug overdoses than of Covid in San Francisco over a one year period. Why has one of the richest cities in the world been devastated by drugs? Please subscribe HERE http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog Fentanyl is 100 times stronger than morphine and even a tiny quantity can kill. But its low cost has made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,169,368],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}