US EditionSan Francisco Ends $5M Alcohol Delivery Program to Alcoholics
San Francisco ends program delivering alcohol to 55 homeless clients amid policy shift to abstinence and recovery under Mayor Lurie's Recovery First Act.
- San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie ended the Managed Alcohol Program that delivered alcohol to people experiencing homelessness with alcohol addiction, saying it 'doesn't make sense.'
- In May, Mayor Daniel Lurie signed the Recovery First Act to recenter city-contracted programs on abstinence and recovery, breaking from West Coast cities like Portland, Seattle, and Los Angeles.
- In April 2020 the San Francisco Department of Public Health created the Managed Alcohol Program , which served 55 clients at a $454,000 per-client average, continuing well after the pandemic ended.
- City leaders pointed to broader reforms as they ended the contract, with Community Forward, San Francisco nonprofit, confirming officials terminated it and Mayor Daniel Lurie highlighting transformed responses.
- Amid debate, advocates and opponents clashed over harm reduction versus recovery as proponents argued supplying alcohol prevented harsh withdrawal, while critics noted taxpayer-funded deliveries during pandemic closures.
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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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