SAN FRANCISCO—On 730 Polk Street in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco sits a safe syringe access center, St. James Infirmary, where clean syringes and other drug use supplies are provided every Tuesday evening. Narcan—a lifesaving drug that reverses the effects of an overdose—is also distributed.
The “harm reduction” model used in the city focuses on “meeting people where they’re at” as their mantra, and the epicenter of those efforts are in the Tenderloin.
