Liberal stupidity escalates, again - San Francisco health officials say a program that provides alcohol to homeless alcoholics prevents the city's most vulnerable from using emergency services --The City of San Francisco is providing free beer and vodka shots to homeless alcoholics at taxpayer expense under a little-known pilot program. - Read more about this liberal stupidity here --https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-buys-vodka-shots-homeless-alcoholics-taxpayer-funded-program
Nothing new, really, and this is a PILOT program, to determine whether it will treat withdrawal in certain cases, reducing the length of stay in hospital. DTs is very bad on the patient, not to mention the care requirements when the patient was having bad withdrawal. I remember when it was prescribed for certain patients admitted in full blown withdrawal, or at risk for it. This was at least 40 years ago. The pharmacy stocked cans of beer, and not your name brand either. When indicated, an order would be written for the patient to receive it every so often according to his condition. And not just willy nilly whenever and unlimited. It was useful to lessen or prevent the worst of withdrawal effects until no longer indicated as determined by the MD evaluation. I actually never had a patient for which it was ordered, but I was aware of it being a possibility as a caregiver.
Ya know when you go to the doctor or hospital and one of the questions concerns how much alcohol you drink? Who honestly answers that question, but it really is important because if somebody is accustomed to large amounts of alcohol daily, severe binging etc., then they are at risk for DTs if suddenly they are cut off by means of being hospitalized for a day or more. There are certain medications for this, prescribed prophylacticly. Not sure why the beer/alcohol thing is being resurrected; maybe it works faster than a 'dose' of the medication.
It will be interesting to learn if this pilot program shows benefits. But I doubt it is like being portrayed here in KS, and certain commenters in that articles, like being treated as "free beer" for anyone walking into where it is being 'served.'
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