{"id":465475,"date":"2026-09-16T10:24:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465475\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:24:35","slug":"teen-overdose-confirms-arrival-of-deadly-opioid-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465475\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Overdose Confirms Arrival of Deadly Opioid in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAirdate: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 9am\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">A 16-year-old boy from San Francisco died in April from the city\u2019s first confirmed overdose involving cychlorphine . The synthetic opioid is considered much more potent than fentanyl, which is already more potent than heroin and other opiates. It has killed dozens of people across the country since 2024. This week, San Francisco police announced they had arrested four suspects accused of supplying the deadly pills in the overdose case. We\u2019ll talk about San Francisco\u2019s\u00a0 response so far, -and what the arrival of this deadly drug means for a city that has struggled with more than 4,000 drug overdose deaths since 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Heather Knight, San Francisco bureau chief, New York Times \u2013 She wrote the recent story, \u201cA Teen Autopsy Marks the Arrival of a Deadly Drug in San Francisco.\u201dDaniel Tsai, director, Department of Public Health, San FranciscoDaniel Ciccarone, professor of of Addiction Medicine, UCSF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airdate: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 9am A 16-year-old boy from San Francisco died in April from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-465475","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\/465475","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=465475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}