Salvation Army Steps Up Assistance For S.F. Drug-Response Efforts

CBS San Francisco

July 21, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO -- As San Francisco tries to take better control over its drug crisis one group in particular is vying to become a greater part of the relief effort. That group now includes someone who has spent years trying to help people with a problem he himself faced in the past..

"This program was designed in response to the needs of the community," Steve Dami told KPIX in 2021. "We set out to create a safe space for people who were trying to get away from all drugs."

After two decades in and out of jail and prison, Adami ultimately landed a job with the San Francisco Probation Department, where he ran the city's only abstinence-based recovery program. The only way to get into that program is to be released from jail, which is something many San Franciscans do not want to see happen.

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