San Fransisco Mayor London Breed (D) unveiled a controversial proposal Tuesday to require anyone receiving welfare to comply with mandatory drug testing and treatment programs as the city struggles to get a handle on its drug and homelessness issues.
While announcing the plan with Supervisor Matt Dorsey, a recovering addict and former spokesperson for the police department, Breed said the new initiative would require individuals with substance use disorders who want to access county-funded cash assistance to be enrolled in treatment and services.
“San Francisco is a city of compassion, but also a city that demands accountability,” Breed said in a statement. “We fund a wide range of services, and we want to help people get the care they need but under current state law, local government lack tools to compel people into treatment. This initiative aims to create more accountability and help get people to accept the treatment and services they need.”
“I strongly support Mayor Breed’s initiative, which will better incentivize treatment and recovery for a population that’s at wildly disproportionate risk for drug addiction and overdose fatalities,” Dorsey added. “We’re facing an unprecedented loss of life in San Francisco, and we know coercive interventions can work.
Under Breed’s new proposal, as a condition of eligibility to receive County Adult Assistance Programs (CAAP), individuals with a suspected substance use disorder would be required to participate in substance abuse screenings or treatment programs funded by San Francisco Human Services Agency (SFHSA).
The mayor’s office said these treatment programs would include a range of interventions from residential treatment, medical detox, medically-assisted treatment, outpatient options, and abstinence-based treatment, among others based on the needs of the client. Individuals who refuse or do not successfully engage in treatment would not be eligible to receive CAAP cash assistance and their application would be denied, or they would be discontinued from receiving cash assistance.
Mayor Breed is facing an uphill reelection battle as homelessness and fentanyl issues continue to rise. On Tuesday, Daniel Lurie, a longtime nonprofit executive and an heir to the Levi Strauss & Co. fortune, announced his primary challenge against Mayor Breed.
“What we are seeing on the streets of San Francisco is not progressive,” Lurie said in a campaign announcement video. “We have too many people who have been in power for far too long doing things the same way they’ve always been done. We need the courage to try to do things differently. I’m running for mayor to provide a different type of leadership. A new era of leadership from the outside.”
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WHAT makes that controversial? Handing drug money to people is a total waste of taxpayer money.
And the exit from of California’s tax base continues …
He can’t do that. If he does, he is a racist and be called an antisocial and demoted from the democrat party. They have a right to drug and steal all they can everyday by the new state Laws.
It’s what democrats do.
This is insanity !!!
WHY do the homeless want welfare money???
TO BUY DRUGS, of course.
I can only see the following result…………….
Crime will skyrocket.