Mayor London Breed stopped by the San Francisco Recovery Summit on Wednesday, boosting a movement that is gaining power in City Hall.
Mayor London Breed standing at a podium at the San Francisco Recovery Summit on April 24, 2024, where she gave brief remarks. Photo by Joe Rivano Barros.
Breed reminded the audience that she came up in poverty — “I grew up in OC, I grew up in Plaza East,” she said, referencing the Fillmore public housing project— during a time “when the crack epidemic exploded, when heroin started to take away so many people’s ability to make decisions.” But the recovery movement can appear to many in the harm reduction community as myopic and moralistic — too focused on ensuring total abstinence, and punitive., a Yale professor and three-time drug policy advisor in the White House under both Bush and Obama. He runs anMission Local spoke to half a dozen public health experts
for more police officers, more National Guard troops, and a “shift from an over reliance on harm reduction that has enabled more drug use to providing more recovery-first and abstinence-based options.”emphasizes both “a law enforcement AND public health perspective” to the drug crisis, and notes that the mayor is “sending a message that drug users should NOT come to San Francisco anymore … They will get arrested.
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