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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: SF ENDS $5M Booze Delivery to Drunks — $454K PER ALCOHOLIC WASTED!
Description: San Francisco spent $5 million a year—$20 million total—delivering booze to homeless alcoholics. Yes, you read that right. The city's "Managed Alcohol Program" cost taxpayers $454,000 per client over four years, all in the name of "harm reduction." As usual, progressive policies prioritize keeping people comfortable in their addiction rather than actually helping them recover.We break down how this pandemic-era program lingered for years after COVID ended, why it failed the very people it claimed to help, and how new Mayor Daniel Lurie is finally ditching the harm reduction approach in favor of a Recovery First Act. A formerly home...