San Francisco Rethinks Its Free Handouts of Drug Paraphernalia

Daniel Lurie, the city’s new mayor, is scaling back a program that gives away clean foil, pipes and plastic straws for fentanyl consumption. Nonprofits will have to direct people toward treatment.

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Ernest Drucker, Public-Health Advocate for the Scorned, Dies at 84

He marshaled epidemiological research to press for changes in drug policy, alternatives to prison and needle-exchange programs to slow the spread of AIDS.

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