US EditionSan Francisco Ends $5M Alcohol Delivery Program to Alcoholics
San Francisco shifts from harm reduction to abstinence with the Recovery First Act after ending a program serving 55 clients at $5 million annually, officials said.
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Exclusive | Crazy scheme saw San Francisco taxpayers shell out $5M a year on alcohol for homeless
The Managed Alcohol Program (MAP), a Covid-era scheme that received $5 million of taxpayer money annually to serve booze to homeless alcoholics will finally shutter this year, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie exclusively told The Post.
San Francisco ends alcohol deliveries to alcoholics
San Francisco is finally ending a COVID-era program that delivered alcohol to alcoholics. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie told The California Post that the $5 million program will shut down this year. The backstory: The Managed Alcohol Program (MAP) launched in April 2020, when San Francisco began housing the homeless in hotels as the city shut down due to COVID-19. Clinicians worked through MAP to deliver metered doses of alcohol to chroni…
The mayor of San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, announced the cancellation of the *Managed Alcohol Program* (MAP), implemented in April 2020 by the local Department of Public Health. The program allocated $5 million a year in public funds to provide alcohol to 55 people in the street with addictions, at a cost of $454,000 per participant. Lurie told the *California Post*: “For years, San Francisco spent $5 million a year in providing alcohol to people…
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