The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) confirmed in a tweet Tuesday that homeless people put up in hotels are being given free alcohol and drugs.
A Twitter user named “T Wolf” who calls himself a “formerly homeless addict,” sent a tweet this week saying he’s heard reports of homeless people getting free alcohol, marijuana and methadone.
“I just found out that homeless placed in hotels in SF are being delivered Alcohol, Weed and Methadone because they identified as an addict/alcoholic for FREE. You’re supposed to be offering treatment. This is enabling and is wrong on many levels,” he said.
These harm reduction based practices, which are not unique to San Francisco, and are not paid for with taxpayer money, help guests successfully complete isolation and quarantine and have significant individual and public health benefits in the COVID-19 pandemic.
— SFDPH (@SF_DPH) May 5, 2020
Though the SFDPH claims that taxpayer money is not being used, it does not clarify who is paying for the alcohol and drugs.
Homelessness has long been a problem in San Francisco. In 2019, city data indicated there were 8,011 homeless people in the city, an 18 percent increase from 2015.
read more here: https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/06/homeless-people-san-francisco-hotel-rooms-given-free-alcohol-and-drugs/
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