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Members of the San Francisco Medical Examiner transfer the body of an overdose victim near the corner of Golden Gate and Jones Street in San Francisco, Calif. Monday, Aug. 2, 2021.

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Anthony Alexander, 42, who is addicted to fentanyl, smokes fentanyl on Hyde street after he was turned-away for the second time in a week at the city-run Tom Waddell Urban Health Clinic nearby for a space at the Joe Healy Detox Program in San Francisco, California Monday, March 15, 2021.

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A man sleeps in a shopping cart on Minna Street as volunteers pick up trash during a monthly neighborhood community beautification day organized by the Department of Public Works in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022.

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Morgan Stanphill, left, looks in the distance as he is embraced by mother Kelly Stanphill, right, as they say goodbye to each other after a visit in San Francisco, California Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. Morgan, who is experiencing homelessness and addicted to fentanyl, was recently given a space at the city-run tent encampment on Gough Street amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Anthony Alexander, 42, who is addicted to fentanyl, searches for smokable cigarette butts from a debris-filled nightstand inside his single room occupancy (SRO) hotel room, a week after he entered a detox program in San Francisco, California Monday, April 26, 2021. Alexander left the program and returned to his SRO after three days after realizing his withdrawal symptoms are not as intense as feared while feeling optimistic.

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San Francisco Police Sergeant Kin Lee, left, and Chief William Scott, third from left, checks on a woman at the corner of Eddy and Leavenworth Street during a walk in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, California Tuesday, July 13, 2021.

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Peter Taylor, 23, searches for scattered fentanyl on Minna Street near the shuttered Minna Hotel in the SOMA district of San Francisco, California Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Taylor, who is originally from San Jose, has been using fentanyl for about 10 months.

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Justice Valentine, who returned to San Francisco after fleeing Las Vegas due to domestic violence, right, walks by a passed out person on the sidewalk on her way to a playground with daughters Zaniya, center, and Niara, left, in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, California Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022.

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Emergency personnel with the San Francisco Fire Department prepare to inject a dose of Naloxone on an unconscious patient in San Francisco, California Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021.

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Susan Choate embraces husband Steve Brye as Don Ouimet prepares to close the casket carrying their son Jeffrey during a memorial service at Ouimet Bros. Concord Funeral Chapel in Concord, Calif. Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. Jeffrey, 36, was found dead after a suspected overdose at a motel not far from his parents home on Sunday, Jan. 2.