On April 23, two synthetic opioids — N-propionitrile chlorphine, known as cychlorphine, and N-desethyl Isotonitazene — caused a fatal overdose in San Francisco, prompting the city’s Department of...

On October 13, 2017, California Governor Edmund Gerald Brown declared a state of emergency due to the recent hepatitis A outbreak in Southern California in order to secure sufficient hepatitis A vaccines,...