A harbinger of societal collapse

From San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students by Phil Matier.

San Francisco has more drug addicts than it has students enrolled in its public high schools, the city Health Department’s latest estimates conclude.

There are about 24,500 injection drug users in San Francisco — that’s about 8,500 more people than the nearly 16,000 students enrolled in San Francisco Unified School District’s 15 high schools and illustrates the scope of the problem on the city’s streets.

There are a lot of such harbingers but this is a striking contrast. It is a shock that a city with nearly a million people only has 16,000 people in high school and that shock is compounded by how many more drug addicts there are than high schoolers.