https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/us/san-francisco-drug-crisis.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/us/san-francisco-drug-cri... Here's a current article w

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/us/san-francisco-drug-crisis.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/us/san-francisco-drug-cri... Here's a current article written by a local advocate, its unfortunately paywalled but you're probably aware of ways around that. Here's a snippet: I called Thomas Wolf, one of the loudest critics of the city’s policies, to run past him what I was hearing from professors and other experts who have spent their lives studying drug use. “Forgive me for saying this,” Mr. Wolf politely told me, “but those people who you said you talked to — the experts — they have never shot dope, man. They never stuck a needle in their neck. They never spent a night on the street.” Mr. Wolf has done all of those things, which makes him one of the most poignant voices in the debate over what San Francisco should do to address an epidemic that claimed 713 lives last year, more than twice as many as died from the coronavirus in the city in 2020. “You can study homelessness and addiction in a book all day long,” Mr. Wolf told me. “But until you have experienced the power of addiction and the things you thought you would never resort to, you don’t really understand.”