Drug users must enter treatment to get SF County cash assistance, Mayor Breed proposes

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The initiative would mean the homeless or formerly homeless getting financial assistance from the city and county must go through a screening first and then undergo substance abuse treatment to get that money.

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Mayor Breed said, "We're on track in this city this year to exceed the highest number of overdose deaths that we have since this thing has really taken over, dominated, destroyed and taken away lives, and we need to do something about it." Mayor Breed, along with Supervisor Matt Dorsey, Trent Rhorer from the San Francisco Human Services Agency and others, spoke about the plan.

Rhorer says there are 5,200 people who are part of the County Adult Assistance Program, which provides cash assistance to the homeless and formerly homeless.

 

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