One addict-turned-activist warned San Francisco has become the “epicenter” of the nationwide drug crisis as the city struggles to come up with the resources to battle the “cartel-fueled” calamity.Â
Pacific Alliance for Prevention and Recovery founder Tom Wolf joined “Fox & Friends First” to discuss how organized crime has fueled the city’s opioid crisis as drug-related overdoses continue to skyrocket.Â
“Unfortunately for San Francisco, we’ve become the epicenter of the overdose crisis in the United States,” Wolf told Ashley Strohmier said Tuesday. “We have the highest overdose death rate per capita of any county in the United States right now, and if we don’t step in and intervene – and what I mean by intervene is, we need to actually come in and take these organized drug dealers down because they are cartel-fueled, organized drug dealers that are operating on our streets.”
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“And we have about 500 of them right now operating in San Francisco in broad daylight, right on the street for everyone to see, and we just don’t have enough resources to stop them,” he continued.Â
His comments come as disturbing video shows paramedics loading another dead body into an emergency vehicle last week, after their third overdose call of the morning.Â
Between January and February of this year alone, there were 131 accidental drug overdose deaths, according to the San Francisco office of the chief medical examiner.Â
Critics have blamed the border crisis for fueling the surging drug deaths in recent years, as officials have now seized more than 800 pounds of fentanyl between ports of entry this fiscal year alone, a source told Fox News.Â
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