Your city is cutting drug counselor training, huh
Okay so, big news this week from City Hall, and honestly? It's a head-scratcher, fam. The Department of Public Health (DPH) just cut counselor training at City College. This is happening as San Francisco is pivoting hard to *mandatory* drug treatment. I mean, you can’t make this stuff up. It was announced Monday, May 4, that DPH is pulling back on the very thing you'd think we'd need more of if we're forcing people into treatment.
The Same Day We Got The First Handcuffed Patient
Literally hours before this DPH cut was announced, SFPD brought the first man, in handcuffs, to the RESET sobering center. That was also Monday, May 4. So, on one hand, we're seeing this aggressive new approach to getting people into treatment, even if it means handcuffs. On the other hand, we're gutting the training pipeline for the counselors who would actually *do* that treatment.
* DPH cut counselor training at City College.
* The City is shifting to mandatory drug treatment.
* SFPD brought the first handcuffed person to the RESET sobering center.
* All this went down on Monday, May 4, 2026.
It just feels like another one of those moments where the City's right hand isn't talking to its left, you know? We're talking about real people, real addiction, and real services. Cutting the very resources that help people get clean? That’s the City, fam — fog, hills, and all. We'll have to watch how this plays out in the coming months, especially with the June 2 election coming up.
Vivian Leung, MiTL Sports Desk.
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