San Francisco has closed a drug treatment centre that officials said saved lives but critics warned had operated as an open-air drug market in the heart of the city.
London Breed, the mayor, announced the opening of the Tenderloin Center in January as part of her plan to tackle San Francisco’s drug epidemic, which has attracted international headlines. Already this year more than 500 people have died from overdoses in the city, while last year there were 641 deaths.
