San Fran program giving 'free alcohol' to homeless people under fire: 'Doesn't feel right'

San Francisco city program gives free booze to alcoholics

San Francisco offers a $5 million program for homeless alcoholics to receive free alcohol to help stabilize drinking patterns.

San Francisco city program gives free booze to alcoholics

(NewsNation) — San Francisco offers a $5 million program for homeless alcoholics to receive free alcohol. The city says its Managed Alcohol Program is in place to help stabilize drinking patterns. While the program has supporters who say it works, it has received criticism from local leaders. Reducing severe alcohol use The San Francisco Department of Public Health described MAP as “interventions that aim to reduce the harms of severe alcohol us…

San Francisco’s free booze for homeless alcoholics program slammed by critics - Washington Examiner

San Francisco is getting hammered for spending millions of dollars on a program that gives free booze to homeless alcoholics, but researchers are insisting the multimillion-dollar strategy has merit.  Keanan Joyner, a professor and researcher in the Clinical Research on Externalizing and Addiction Mechanisms Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, called San Francisco’s Managed Alcohol Program, or MAP, “a very positive thing.” A homeless …

San Francisco under fire for program giving booze to homeless alcoholics: 'Where's the recovery in all this?'

A $5 million pilot program bringing free beer, wine and vodka shots to San Francisco's homeless alcoholics aims to relieve the city's emergency services, but one addict-turned-recovery advocate says the effort misses the mark and only delays recovery for those who need it."It's not a good idea, not when you consider the fact that, over the last four years, San Francisco spent $20 million to basically service a total of a couple of hundred people…

San Fran program giving 'free alcohol' to homeless people under fire: 'Doesn't feel right'

The board chair for The Salvation Army San Francisco criticized the program on social media, questioning the use of public funds.

San Francisco is Giving Free Booze to Homeless Alcoholics