City workers in San Fransisco are taking to the streets and offering bupenorphine prescriptions to homeless people addicted to opioids, reports the New York Times.
Why it matters: This is an example of a city applying effective treatment for opioid addiction. At the end of a year long pilot program, just 20 of 95 participants were still taking buprenorphine.
Correction: This story has been updated to delete an incorrect sentence suggesting there had been opioid overdoses in Connecticut.
