Bay Area city proposes paying people to not do drugs

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A San Francisco metropolis supervisor has introduced authorities proposing to wage definite eligible recipients $100 a week if they trial antagonistic for illicit drugs. The legislation, which was announced by Supervisor Matt Dorsey, would make a voluntary sobriety and betterment inaugural for eligible wide assistance recipients successful San Francisco.

The legislation, which is being called "Cash Not Drugs," has the enactment of SF Mayor London Breed. The projected authorities would supply an inducement for beneficiaries of the County Adult Assistance Program (CAPP) who person been screened and diagnosed for substance usage disorders and referred to treatment.

"A humane and effectual attack to San Francisco's cause situation indispensable see rewarding bully behavior, and not solely punishing atrocious behavior," Supervisor Dorsey said. "Cash Not Drugs is simply a contingency absorption programme that adopts the astir studied and palmy nationalist wellness interventions we cognize to assistance those who conflict with addiction. By incentivizing and supporting semipermanent recovery, Cash Not Drugs won't conscionable assistance lives, but alteration lives for the better."

"The cause situation we are facing requires antithetic strategies to get radical into treatment, successful summation to the important enforcement enactment happening successful our neighborhoods," said Mayor Breed. "Contingency absorption is an important instrumentality that has proven to beryllium effectual present successful San Francisco, and Cash Not Drugs volition assistance enactment getting much radical into attraction and code the conditions we spot connected our streets."

San Francisco voters person already enacted a screening request arsenic a information of receiving CAPP benefits, nether Proposition F, which was connected the March 2024 superior ballot. If endorsed by the SF Board of Supervisors, Cash Not Drugs would beryllium administered arsenic a three-year aviator by San Francisco's Human Services Agency successful coordination with the SF Department of Public Health.