San Francisco Pilots New Public Drug Enforcement Approach at SoMa RESET Center
The pilot will hold people arrested for public drug use or intoxication in 25 reclining chairs and offer optional treatment after they sober up.
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First Arrestee/Patient Arrives at SF's Controversial New Sobering Center
The first individual was brought to the new RESET (Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation, and Triage) Center in SoMa Monday morning, and we'll have to see how this experiment goes.That forced/coerced sobering center that we've heard about for several months, championed by Mayor Daniel Lurie as an alternative to jail for people who just need to sober up for some period of hours, opened Monday morning, and Mission Local reports on the first arriv…
San Francisco pilots new public drug enforcement approach at SoMa RESET Center
San Francisco’s experiment with a new approach to public drug use and addiction starts Monday as the RESET (Rapid Enforcement Support Evaluation and Triage) Center opens on 6th Street in the city’s South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood. Under this pilot program, people found publicly using drugs or intoxicated in the neighborhood will be arrested and brought there until they sober up, then they will be offered the option to connect with treatment …
Letters: Lurie's 'Reset Center is a disaster waiting to happen
From Teresa Palmer: I adamantly advise closure and complete reconfiguration of Mayor Daniel Lurie’s Reset Center plan. This plan appears to be based on a narrow, stereotyped view of what is wrong (and should be fixed) with a person on the street with altered mental status. The lack of medically skilled personnel and supplies (including real beds, MDs, more than one RN, a pharmacist, medications and diagnostic and treatment supplies) makes poor o…
The San Francisco experiment with a new approach to public drug use and addiction began this Monday, with the opening of the RESET Center (Assessment and Triage in Support of the Quick Application of the Law) on 6th Street, in the neighborhood of South of Market (SoMa) of the city. Within the framework of this pilot program, people who are caught using drugs in public or in a state of poisoning in the neighborhood will be arrested and transferre…
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