Mayor Lurie’s Statement on 2025 Overdose Deaths: Lowest Since Fentanyl Crisis Hit

SAN FRANCISCO – Mayor Daniel Lurie today released the following statement on the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner’s preliminary report showing accidental overdose deaths declined in 2025, reaching the lowest level since 2020. 

“Two years ago, more than 800 people died from overdose in San Francisco, every single one a tragedy. I ran for mayor to fix that, and we are finally moving in the right direction as a city with the lowest number of overdose deaths since the fentanyl crisis hit—but we have so much more work to do. 

“Under my administration, we’re getting people with addiction the help they need and getting them into recovery so they can actually get better. We passed a Fentanyl State of Emergency to treat the drug crisis with the urgency it demands, launched our Breaking the Cycle plan to fundamentally transform the city’s response to the behavioral health crisis, and ended the distribution of fentanyl smoking supplies without connection to treatment. 

“We made San Francisco a recovery-first city, opened a crisis stabilization center, reimagined street outreach, and opened 600 new treatment-focused beds so people on the streets can get inside and get help. This year, we’re launching a RESET Center to get drug users off the street and into treatment. 

“The drug crisis is still killing too many people in our city. And my administration is going to be relentless in tackling it until no one dies from overdose in San Francisco.”