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(Discern Media)—The City of San Francisco has decided to take a rather peculiar approach to address the issue of homeless alcoholics. They’ve initiated a “Managed Alcohol Program,” which, in the most cynical sense, can be summed up as providing free beer and vodka shots to homeless individuals suffering from alcohol addiction. This program, funded by the taxpayer’s hard-earned dollars, is a part of a little-known pilot program.
Experts claim that this program can save lives or at least prolong them. But let’s be honest here, it’s not like the city is investing in their recovery or sobriety. Instead, they’re simply making sure these individuals stay off the streets and out of emergency services, which apparently saves the city a few bucks.
The Managed Alcohol Program, or MAP, was first introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic to keep vulnerable homeless individuals who were placed in isolation in hotel rooms from experiencing alcohol withdrawal. Now, it has expanded into a 20-bed program that operates out of a former hotel in Tenderloin, with a budget of $5 million annually.
The program’s nurses provide clients with a motel room, three meals a day, and enough alcohol “to meet their addiction needs, but keep someone at a safe level of intoxication.” What a lovely way to spend taxpayer money, right?
In addition to free alcohol, the program also allows marijuana use, because why not? There’s no policy against it, so these individuals can indulge in their vices as they please.
Critics, including the Salvation Army San Francisco and its CEO Adam Nathan, have called this program into question. Nathan criticized the program after visiting the hotel, claiming it felt odd and didn’t seem like it was addressing the root problem. But hey, who cares about recovery and sobriety when you can just keep people in a perpetual state of addiction, right?
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has even chimed in, stating that harm reduction isn’t actually reducing harm, but making things far worse. But who’s to argue with the experts who claim this program has saved $1.7 million in reduced hospital visits and police calls? Certainly not the people who are genuinely concerned about the well-being of these individuals and the city’s use of taxpayer funds.
San Francisco’s Managed Alcohol Program is a shining example of how a city can throw money at a problem without actually addressing the underlying issues. Cheers to that, I guess.
Afghan Who Plotted Election Day Terrorism Was a CIA Contractor
by Headline USA
It looks like the FBI may have entrapped a former CIA contractor in a plot to commit a terrorist attack on Election Day. The Justice Department announced this week the arrest of Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, a 27-year-old Afghan man, alleging that he was planning an Election…
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Genetically Modified Crops: A Growing Threat to Health and the Environment
by Olivia Cook
(Natural News)—Bioengineered foods and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are commonly confused with each other, but they have different meanings. “Bioengineered” describes food and products that are enhanced with scientific techniques to add particular traits. In contrast, “GMOs” involve changing the genetic makeup of animals, plants or microbes in ways that…
United Nations Expands into “UN 2.0” to Turbocharge Sustainable Development Goals
by Liberty Sentinel
The United Nations (UN) has not gone rogue, argues journalist Alex Newman on American Family Radio’s show, At the Core , but they have always existed to achieve one goal: one-world government. This goal is not only un-American, but it is unbiblical. Newman and AFR host Walker Wildmon also dive…
Congressman Matt Gaetz Says Epstein Was Killed as Part of a ‘Foreign Operation’
by Modernity
Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz says sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was killed as part of a ‘foreign operation’, but refused to divulge which government was responsible for his death. Gaetz made the comments during an appearance on Benny Johnson’s show. In August 2019, Epstein was found unresponsive in his jail cell…
DOJ Takes Aim at Breaking Up Google
by Infowars
On Tuesday, the United States announced potential plans to request a court mandate directing Alphabet Inc to divest significant segments of its operations, including its Chrome browser and Android operating system. This move aims to dismantle what is described as an illegal monopoly held by Google in the online search…
Is Gavin Newsom Hoping that Kamala Harris Loses the Election?
by American Greatness
Two minutes of airtime during the Democrat National Convention in Chicago gave California Governor Gavin Newsom his latest opportunity to build his national stature. As part of the announcement of Kamala Harris’s clinching of the Democrat presidential nomination during a symbolic roll call of state delegates, Newsom portrayed Harris as…
Is It Time for a Nationwide Ban on Fluoridated Water?
by Natural News
Do community leaders reserve the right to mass medicate every person in their community using the water supply as a vector? What if that medicine was eventually exposed as a POISON decades later? What if that POISON was damaging the brains of children and stunting the cognitive development of the…
GOP Rep. Luna: We Need to End FEMA Migrant Spending and Boost Disaster Relief Funding
by Breitbart
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) stated that FEMA’s funding for migrants should be zeroed out at once and that while there is FEMA money for hurricane victims, we should also boost emergency relief funding “that will go directly to Americans…
Earth’s Continental Crust in America and China Is Breaking Apart
by End Times Headlines
Researchers, who have been studying the dramatic changes in the continental configurations of Earth over the past billions of years, have made a stunning observation: that the oldest continental crusts are disintegrating. According to experts, the Earth’s crust went through expansion and contraction and has transformed not only its positions…
“Line All Those Guys Up and Shoot Them”: Professor Says Men Who Don’t Support Female Candidates Should Be Massacred
by Daily Caller
(Jaryn Crouson, DCNF)—A professor at the University of Kansas (UK) told a class that men who would not vote for a female president should be lined up and shot, according to a video posted on X Wednesday. The university confirmed the professor is employed at UK and made the comment…