Good morning, everyone. Chair morris, supervisor haney, supervisor mandelman, thank you forgiving us the opportunity to speak with you today. My name is tom wolf, im a recovery advocate in San Francisco, im a native san franciscan. And three years ago today i was only three years ago today i was sleeping on a piece of cardboard in the doorway of golden gate and hyde in the tenderloin, severely addicted to heroin. I chose heroin and fentanyl over my wife and two kids, and that led me to the street, where for the next six months i engaged in various forms of activity to support my activity, which included holding drugs for the drug dealers, which eventually got me incarcerated. I was arrested six times, and five of the six time i was released back into homelessness. The sixth time i had an opportunity to go to a sixmonth inpatient Treatment Program. And the only reason i could go to that Treatment Program is because it was completely free. I was housed, clothed, fed, given 12step, faithb
But given people can go to different programs and if the one if the abstinence only program is just you cant that didnt work for me. Folks are going to try different programs probably. What is the harm in having abstinence only programs in the array of options . So abstinence programs definitely have worked over the years for people who fit in and can stay there. Were concerned that the people who dont, not be dropped. And thats what we mean when we say that there has to be Harm Reduction approaches. And also, in the middle of this epidemic, there has to be a response to overdose, if it happens, inside the program. Regardless of whether a person was abstinent yesterday, they may relapse. Why is that on the program rather than i mean, why a person tried the abstinence program. Its not working. We can move people between programs, right . If program a wasnt working, wouldnt we try program b . Yeah. But we have to know it didnt work. If they just leave, it may take us a long time to find
Of america in shackles. We know we have a long way to go and we are living with the legacy of slavery and jim crow and racial oppression that continues to permeate every aspect of american life. And we have seen that over the last several months in such a stark and striking fashion. The covid19 pandemic, the Public Health crisis and the economic crisis, has impacted everyone, but disproportionately impacted the africanamerican. Ommunity in terms of pain, in terms of suffering, in terms of economic. Islocation, in terms of death and then, of course, were dealing with the continued epidemic, at the same time, of Police Violence, Police Brutality, police abuse. All across the land. Every aspect of our lives. Shopping while black. George floyd. Sleeping while black. Breonna taylor. Jogging while black. Ahmaud arbery. The names are too numerous to mention. But those tragedies are just a microcosm of what we confronts in our communities ideally a daily basis and we want to have a discussion
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