San Francisco Strikes Again!

San Francisco gives shots of vodka or glasses of beer to homeless people who are struggling with severe alcohol addiction.

The city set up its managed alcohol program four years ago, initially as part of its Covid response, in the hopes of keeping vulnerable people out of jails and emergency rooms.

But the topic has flared up on social media again, with the chair of the Salvation Army San Francisco's advisory board, Adam Nathan, speaking out against it. Nathan, who is also the CEO of an AI company, posted on X, formally Twitter, that he "stumbled across" the former hotel that the program operates out of last week.

He wrote: "It's set up so people in the program just walk in and grab a beer, and then another one. All day. The whole thing is very odd to me and just doesn't feel right. Providing free drugs to drug addicts doesn't solve their problems. It just stretches them out. Where's the recovery in all of this?"
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