SF CA buys vodka & beer for homeless with tax dollars

Saturday, May 11, 2024

The City of San Francisco is providing free beer and vodka shots to homeless alcoholics at taxpayer expense under a little-known pilot program. The "Managed Alcohol Program" operated by San Francisco's Department of Public Health serves regimented doses of alcohol to voluntary participants with alcohol addiction in an effort to keep the homeless off the streets and relieve the city's emergency services. Experts say the program can save or extend lives, but critics wonder if the government would be better off funding treatment and sobriety programs instead. "By prescribing limited quantities of alcohol, the model aims to prevent potentially life-threatening effects of alcohol withdrawal, such as seizures and injuries."

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The San Francisco managed alcohol program, or MAP, was established during the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent vulnerable homeless people who were placed in isolation in hotel rooms from suffering from alcohol withdrawal. But the program, which started with 10 beds, has since been expanded into a 20-bed program that operates out of a former hotel in Tenderloin with a $5 million annual budget, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

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Are you praising SF CA or condemning them, for these life-saving measures?

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-05-11 03:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

They can do better than that.

Weed.

I mean...it's medicinal and should be covered by Medicaid.

#2 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2024-05-11 09:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Some people like to bring up religion when it comes to hand outs.

Would people catagorize this as something Jesus would approve?

#3 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2024-05-11 09:51 PM | Reply

It is covered by Medicaid.

But I wouldn't expect you to agree that alcoholics should get alcohol, instead of dying from withdrawal.

Go read your Bible and then forget everything it says.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-05-11 09:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Some people like to bring up religion when it comes to hand outs.
Would people catagorize this as something Jesus would approve?

#3 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

Jesus' first miracle was making water out of wine. I am certain there were alcoholics at the wedding.

#5 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-11 09:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Jesus' first miracle was making water out of wine. I am certain there were alcoholics at the wedding.

POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2024-05-11 09:54 PM | REPLY

Making wine out of water. Giggles

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-05-11 09:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

LOL I guess making water out of wine isn't too difficult, even I can do that

#7 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-11 09:59 PM | Reply

@#3 ... Would people catagorize this as something Jesus would approve? ...

Wasn't Jesus' first miracle to turn water into wine?

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-05-11 10:02 PM | Reply

@#8

Shudda read the thread before I replied to @3.

Apologies for the repetition.

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-05-11 10:13 PM | Reply

Source is crap, Floribama skank wishes she could afford to travel to California.

---- off.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-05-11 10:19 PM | Reply

So, jeebus has a problem with buying folks a drink.

Yeah, you can keep your religion. To yourself, preferably.

#11 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-05-11 11:53 PM | Reply

Lamp,

Yes...Jesus first recorded miracle is turning water into wine.

And good quality too it was recorded.

I believe Jesus approved of drinking in moderation.

The problem is the excessiveness.

Ephesians 5:18: "Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit."

However, anyone who takes the Nazirite vow or priests or rulers should abstain totally to remain clear headed.

The problem is SF will lead these people to drunkenness. Its not just the alcohol.

It's the drunkenness.

#12 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2024-05-12 10:08 AM | Reply

It is covered by Medicaid.
- snoofy

So your grandchildren are paying for it, no problem then. You got yours.

alcoholics should get alcohol, instead of dying from withdrawal.
- snoofy

How were they staying alive before?

Go read your Bible and then forget everything it says.
- snoofy

Well it is full of magical thinking.

#13 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-05-12 07:22 PM | Reply

"So your grandchildren are paying for it, no problem then. You got yours."

Anybody know what this Deplorable is talking about?

The question is, should hospitals save people's lives, and Deolotables say No.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-05-12 07:27 PM | Reply

Just go reiterate:

Hospitals keep alcoholic beverages on hand, so drunks don't die from the DTs.

But Deplorables think it would be better if drunks died from the DTs.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-05-12 07:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Our tax dollars subsidize cults directly and their indoctrination houses via private school vouchers

#16 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-05-12 07:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This is just like abortion. Republicans don't care about other people unless they're helping to kill them or make their lives worse

#17 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-05-12 07:35 PM | Reply

Vodka is just abusive.

Tequilla on the other hand....

#18 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-05-13 08:06 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#18

I agree. Vodka? Yuk. If I was on the committee, I would've suggested Bourbon.

#19 | Posted by shane at 2024-05-13 09:12 AM | Reply