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24,500 injection drug users in SF means they are classifying one in in every 36 people as a "drug addict". This amount, if true, is over 20x higher than the na
by rmah 8y ago
24,500 injection drug users in SF means they are classifying one in in every 36 people as a "drug addict". This amount, if true, is over 20x higher than the national mean. Maybe it's true, but I find it difficult to believe that 1 in 32 SF adults are shooting up.
- exabrial 8y agoAfter visiting there last year, I think this number is believable.
- jeffdavis 8y agoI think the mean is a bad metric to use. Drug users are not distributed uniformly. There are certainly places where thr murder rate is more than 20x somewhere else, so the number is plaisible to me.
- kingnothing 8y agoAfter living there for a couple of yeas, it's probably correct.
- gamblor956 8y agoConsidering that states like Texas used to publicly brag about taking care of their homeless and druguser populations by shipping them to California, it's totally believable that there are a large number of (non-local) drug addicts now living in SF. For the record, Texas still openly admits to shipping its homeless and drug addicts to California.