joining us live now is staff writer for the standard, david jostad. hey, david. >> hi. thanks for having me. >> yeah, absolutely fascinating. your article uncovers an issue involving san francisco's biggest drug detox center. what was the headline there? >> yeah, the headline is that for a long time, the department of public health has touted these data points that show how the wait to get into the city's detox programs is roughly one day, which would, you know, be pretty good if somebody could show up in that day that they're getting into to detox programs. but critics have for a long time suspected that maybe the department wasn't quite tracking everyone who maybe wasn't making it through that intake process. the data that we got yesterday day shows us that about half of the people who are walking into the door never actually end up getting admitted into the program. >> what are some of the factors for that? >> yeah, some of the factors are that for one, these intake processes are are long and when people are coming in, they're often desperate. they could be having cr