http://www.ktvu.com/news/san-francisco-has-more-drug-users-than-public-high-school-students
San Francisco has more drug users than students enrolled in its
public high schools, according to a recent Health Department survey.
There
are about 24,500 injection drug users in San Francisco and 16,000
students enrolled in San Francisco Unified School District, a comparison
first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
The
number of serious users has also gone up by 2,000 since 2012, although
the methodology to glean those numbers is different now, according to
health department spokeswoman Rachael Kagan.
“Still, we know the numbers are not going down,” she told KTVU on Thursday.
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The data
came from the most recent citywide health department survey regarding
Hepatitis C, and the drug usage includes people who live on the streets
and who live in homes, she said.
The takeaway for the health department?
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