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Thousands of patients. There are potential medications that may offer promise for managing. Managing chronic alcoholism. I know the cities are pursuing some of the those medications. They are expensive but at the same time if i can offer someone an injection that perhaps may not be as drunk anymore, most people will think about giving it a try. There are various types of treatment protocols coming up and those show promises as well. In the end it has to do with time and effort. Those are the thi...

End up in the revolving courts, they have trauma, bad thing that have happened to them and they have no support and they have gotten no lover to support them, no livelihood to live for. What you need to do is provide an adequate amount of support to help them achieve the goals they want. Notice i didnt say sobriety. Im a Substance Abuse expert that doesnt believe in sobriety. The goal is to say what are we going to work on here . I want to is stop being arrested by the cops . Okay. Thats a goal....

Diego. Tell us about the program. Is it working . Let me tell you what the program is about. Its a program where people are convicted for drink in public 5 or more times or arrested and held and if they are convicted for the crime in public. If you see it like a drug court model, thats how it works. So if we want to talk about is it successful, we can throw out a number of definitions for that. We know that drunk in public arrest are down 77 percent in san diego. Thats good for you and we can ta...

Was an entry to getting them locked up for 6 months and whether or not you think that People Living on the streets were you consider that a life, those people do consider it their life. So we feel that there absolutely needs to be more services for all levels. We do not feel that we need a coneject ral and problematic extra involuntary process in california and certainly not in San Francisco. Thank you. [ applause ]. I know we are going to be this hearing and discussing a lot more about Outpatie...

Their clients. Im a huge fan and knowing what we need to do is to make sure those people that need help get the help they want. Our clients are offered treatment and across the board every Single Person arrested for that are offered services an they all get help. Everyone of them gets help. And my outcomes show that they benefit from that. Thank you. [ applause ] you were a substance treatment expert for the medical center. I understand there is some promising new treatments about alcohol that m...

If i were brought to a conference for the police, wed have a very different point of view. If i was at a conference for the District Attorney we might have a different point of view. The nice thing about this program is we are going to have a job. The police are going to arrest these. The attorneys are going to prosecute their cases and the public defenders is going to defend their client and everybody gets to do their job. They are going to do it legally, ethically, but we ask more that they do...

Its kind of ironic that we are going last because we are first in dealing with people with crisis and i can remember back when i was brand new back in 1981. There were folks in alley ways, one comes to mind his name was bobby, you wouldnt even recognize him from the time you would initially contact him to the time he would get out after a 90 day hold for court. You dont have that anymore. The answer cant be to do nothing. So as Police Officers here in San Francisco there is a myriad of options t...

Their clients. Im a huge fan and knowing what we need to do is to make sure those people that need help get the help they want. Our clients are offered treatment and across the board every Single Person arrested for that are offered services an they all get help. Everyone of them gets help. And my outcomes show that they benefit from that. Thank you. [ applause ] you were a substance treatment expert for the medical center. I understand there is some promising new treatments about alcohol that m...

Legally, ethically, but we ask more that they do it morally. So, if im walking down the street and im pulling my dogs chain or i leave my dog outside in the cold and i dont feed it and it has Health Problems or i kick it and make fun of it and treat it harshly, you can arrest me. But i can do that to a person and you think its okay. I dont think its okay. Jeff got me on the phone and said i want to know more about the program and i talked to him and said this is how it works and he said whats th...

Have go through the other part. I would say the same thing as this officer said is that some people cant help themselves. The not civil to sit here and watch people lose their lives. I can tell you that. I have been in groups for 4andahalf years. I have heard many family members. Their children are losing their lives, families are in severe stress. We have to find something else. Not our 51 50, not our 52 50s. We are waiting for people in crisis before we do it. Thank you, eduardo i want to give...