In San Francisco, the death of a teenager has drawn back a curtain on a drug the city had never officially encountered before — cychlorphine, a synthetic substance now claiming its first recorded local victim. Four suspected dealers are in custody and 20,000 pills have been seized, but the deeper question the city must sit with is not only who supplied the drug, but how quietly it had already arrived. Every drug crisis begins with a first death, and communities are left to reckon with what they did not yet know to fear.
San Francisco arrests 4 in connection with teen's fatal cychlorphine overdose
A San Francisco teenager died from a cychlorphine overdose, marking the city's first recorded death from this emerging street drug.