City leaders are sounding the alarm about a new, potentially deadly drug hitting the streets that has already claimed the life of a 16-year-old boy.<\/p>\n
San Francisco police announced the arrests of four people on drug and weapons charges who may be connected to the death. <\/p>\n
The police chief, mayor and district attorney joined together for a news conference to announce the arrests, noting that narcotics officers seized more than 20,000 pills suspected to be counterfeit Xanax, oxycodone and other opiates.<\/p>\n
Investigators say the arrests are connected to the April death of 16-year-old Dante Lacourte. In April, the medical examiner determined he had a new type of synthetic opioid in his system called cyclorphine.<\/p>\n
According to San Francisco public health officials, he is the first person in the city to die from a connection to this drug.<\/p>\n
“San Francisco was caught flat footed by the Fentanyl crisis. We will not let that happen again. When a new deadly drug appears in San Francisco, we are going to find it, we are going to track it, we are going to warn people about it,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said.<\/p>\n
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins also spoke at the briefing regarding the teenager’s death. “It is a sad day though why we are here. When we talk about the loss of life of a 16-year-old. A 16-year-old man who I’m sure had a lot ahead,” Jenkins said.<\/p>\n
The San Francisco Department of Public Health first issued an advisory about cyclorphine in April, shortly after Lacourte’s death.<\/p>\n
The biggest concern for public health officials is the potency of cyclorphine, which is about 10 times stronger than fentanyl. Authorities noted that the drug is more difficult to detect and is resistant to Narcan, the medication used to reverse potential opioid overdoses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City leaders are sounding the alarm about a new, potentially deadly drug hitting the streets that has already…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-463928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}