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An open-air drug market in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco on Dec. 1, 2023. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)

An open-air drug market in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco on Dec. 1, 2023. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)

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