Doctors Against Overdoses

It’s not fair. It’s not compassionate. It’s not progressive. We need to do better.

We have a chance to expand drug-free housing options with the ordinance authored by @mattdorsey this Thursday in San Francisco City Hall. Send an email to the @sfbos expressing your support ➡️ bit.ly/drugfreehousing @Gina_McDee @Twolfrecovery @SteveAdami @missamberreid @auweia1

Tons of people in recovery showed up to support the ordinance that will enable San Francisco to fund drug-free housing. Clearly not everyone in recovery wants to live in buildings that permit illicit drug use @missamberreid @mattdorsey

Drug-Free Supportive Housing legislation City Hall rally and hearing Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m. Public Safety Committee hearing on legislation to expand drug-free supportive housing options beyond the 100% drug-tolerant ‘Housing First’ standard   SAN FRANCISCO — Supervisor Matt Dorsey will be joined by recovery community members and others at a rally on the City Hall steps on Thursday morning, April 23, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. The rally will be immediately followed at 10:00 a.m. by a Board of Supervisors Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee hearing to consider Drug-Free Supportive Housing legislation that will finally offer residents of Permanent Supportive Housing in San Francisco an alternative to the 100 percent drug-tolerant standard.  WHAT:  •City Hall Rally and Board Hearing WHERE:  •City Hall Steps at 9:30 a.m. •City Hall Room 250 at 10:00 a.m. WHEN: •Thursday, April 23, 2026, starting at 9:30 a.m.  For questions, please contact my legislative director, Madison Tam, at madison.r.tam@sfgov.org.

nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opi… We don’t need extremes. We need a system: harm reduction + treatment + accountability. That’s how we save lives and restore communities. #DoctorsAgainstOverdoses

As a physician, I know recovery from addiction requires the right environment. SF’s Hope House sober shelter is a step toward what @MattDorsey calls Recovery First — creating real pathways out of addiction, not just managing it. Proud to support this work through @DoctorsAgainstOverdoses

S.F.’s first sober homeless shelter is close to capacity. Could more follow? sfchronicle.com/sf/article/hop… via @sfchronicle

Healthcare isn’t broken. It works exactly as it was designed, to maximize billing, hide prices, and block competition.

I Am a Drug Historian. Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way. nytimes.com/2025/11/15/opi…

The Trump administration plans major cuts to long-term housing for homelessness - NPR apple.news/A3jxm9U8ERDOxM…

SFPD CRACKDOWN: Over 350 arrests and 12 lbs of narcotics seized in 2 weeks. These operations will continue in the weeks to come as the SFPD works with our city, state, and federal law enforcement partners to get drugs off our streets. Read more: tinyurl.com/nhdrk5ut

San Francisco has been caught flat-footed by the fentanyl crisis for years. This new law-enforcement sobering center is a turning point—finally giving officers a medical alternative to the ER or jail. It means fewer people using on our streets, faster stabilization, and a real path to treatment. A safer city. A more humane response. A step toward recovery for all of us.

Encouraging news as the administration continues to make progress. Bravo!!

This is spot on. Let’s go San Francisco. instagram.com/reel/DPxO23-AW…

Can Drug Users Be Forced Into Rehab? Trump Says Yes. So Do 34 States. nytimes.com/2025/09/17/hea… via @NYTimes What do you think?

This op-ed by @KeithNHumphreys on mandatory treatment for those most acutely unwell on our streets isn’t provocative, it’s pragmatic. Leaving people to die on our streets in the grips of addiction is not compassionate or in anyone’s public health interest. Mandated treatment means caring enough about those who are folded over, confused, or running into the street to compel them into treatment, and feeling the responsibility to ensure that treatment is available and works. It also means caring enough about the children who walk by those people in crisis and are observing how the adults in our community respond. Public health must focus on the whole public, both how we care for those in crisis, as well as the lessons we teach, or the trauma we inflict upon, the young children watching. The crisis on our streets was decades in the making and we are trying to bring much together to turn it around. That includes: Enforcement on drug markets, capital funding for new facility infrastructure, operators who can support the right programming, and policy reform to enable pathways into treatment. But that’s the work ahead, because the status quo isn’t working and everyone deserves better.

Not all harm reduction is the same. Keith Humphreys reminds us in @nytimes that when people are so impaired they can’t act in their own interest, mandated treatment can save lives. Compassion ≠ abandonment. Harm reduction must connect to recovery—or risk enabling chaos. #OverdoseCrisis #Recovery @KeithNHumphreys

Forced rehab ≠ real recovery. Evidence shows coerced treatment leads to relapse & overdose. We need a modern, blended model: treatment on demand, harm reduction, & pathways to abstinence. Compassion + data, not punishment. #OverdoseCrisis Forced Drug Treatment Isn’t Horrific. It’s a Relief. nytimes.com/2025/09/02/opi…

I am happy to announce that AB255 (Recovery Housing) made it out of CA Senate Appropriations today. It now goes to the state senate for a vote. One step closer to funding drug free housing in California! @BayAreaCouncil @salvationarmysf @mccaffreyr3 @GoodDrugPolicy @MattHaneySF