Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

Tomorrow, mothers who lost their children to fentanyl, and mothers of homeless addicts, will protest San Francisco's sinister drug consumption site

Now, the person in charge of the city's pro-drug center, is organizing support from other city contractors to counter their protest

The person who is overseeing San Francisco's experimental drug site is named Gary McCoy @rgarymccoy and he works for a giant health care corporation @healthright360

My colleagues & I were the first to report on McCoy's direct oversight of fentanyl use

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/san-francisc…

It is profoundly unethical and corrupt for McCoy, as a city contractor, to be organizing other city contractors to effectively lobby @LondonBreed and others in the city to support the fentanyl use, dealing, and promotional site, that they directly profit from.

McCoy in his tweets is seeking support from another San Francisco contractor, @GLIDEsf which, under the leadership of McCoy's conspirator in crime, Paul Harkin, staged a mock drug supervision in 2020.

Glide got $4.8 million in San Francisco contracts in 2020.

But McCoy's tweets are a minor thing compared to the many other hidden ways in which radical Left activists posing as "homeless service providers" lobby city officials to fund programs that benefit them directly, financially, for their experimentation on vulnerable addicts.

The pro-drug use "Linkage Center" is attracting many more violent drug dealers & addicts than it was 2 weeks ago

I took these just outside the Linkage Center yesterday

They are legal, consistent with Twitter's policy, and vital for SF voters, @LondonBreed & the world to see.

The public has a right to know what is happening on public property, which includes United Nations Plaza

In 2018, a United Nations special rapporteur condemned San Francisco's open drug scenes as a human rights violation

It is wrong to hide it.

theguardian.com/us-news/2018/j…

I am proud that my colleagues and I were the first to break the story of what is happening with public money, on public property, and in violation of state and federal laws

We are doing as much if not more to expose law-breaking by SF government than any other news media

Other news media are starting to cover this issue, as they should, since San Francisco's open air medical experiment is a huge story with giant implications, including whether this all ends up with San Francisco following Canada & directly distributing "safe" fentanyl to addicts

Journalists have an obligation to cover big news like San Francisco operating a flagrantly illegal drug consumption site, even when powerful institutions say they should not. When journalists won't do those things, ask yourself, why? Is it really not newsworthy?

Or is it that journalists have already decided they support the supervised pro-drug use site and don't want to know how it's working out?

If it's the latter, then they're not real journalists.

If the supervised drug site results in many more addicts getting off the street and into rehab, my colleagues and I will be the first to report it

But all we have heard is that just 2 people *total*, after over 2 weeks of operation, have gone into detox, out of visits per day.

We have been monitoring the public site because this is a massive social and medical experiment unlike anything that has been done in Netherlands or Portugal and we need to understand what is happening, for the sake of the addicts and the larger community.

Various pro-drug site activists are saying we should not make videos or take photos of the public site and instead give the people inside their "privacy."

They are asking, in other words, to privatize a public space.

Hell no.

We're not going to stop monitoring the site.

They are trying to private something public

They are trying to medicalize something unhealthy

They are trying to rationalize something irrational

No. We're not going along with it.

We are going to pay witness to it and and protest it.

The city is refusing to provide the public with any information about what it is doing and so we are within our rights to publish photographs of the site, just as journalists were in their rights to publish other important photos in prior times

To *not* publish photos of such a newsworthy, historic, and ethically ambivalent (I'm being nice) experiment would be *against* journalism & would demonstrate that one is more committed to an a priori ideological support of the site than true open-minded journalism (or science).

You can see a significant increase in people from Jan 23 (left) to Feb 3 (right) in the same area of the supervised drug use site, from two different angles. Tents line the fence and were packed with people. I estimate a 5-10x increase.

It was a party scene, not a medical scene. Widespread fentanyl and meth use.

Concentrating drug consumption is the problem, not the solution. Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Vienna, and Zurich had to learn the hard way. It appears SF has to as well

bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

The whole point of the Linkage Center is to attract drug users

The idea is to get people into the Linkage Center and off the street,but there were as many and perhaps more dealers and users on the street yesterday as two weeks ago.

The site may be resulting in a net increase

That's what's happened in the past: “Organized crime groups set up shop brazenly in front of these things that really isn’t much different than the way it is on the sidewalks."

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/insider-warn…

“Europe’s addiction and mental health care providers were born from their health care system...Here they were born from activism. The people who are running the sites are advocacy-based organizations, not health care providers. And so that in and of itself is a challenge.”

“Supervised sites must come with appropriate policing in the area around the site and addicts should be offered treatment upon arrest. Harm reduction is one leg of a stool along with prevention and intervention, which includes law-enforcement..."

“The sites have to be extremely well-regulated & linked to the health care system. They cannot be anonymous. Your health status has to be monitored and tracked. The services can’t be about watching people use. They have to be about moving people into treatment and other services"

The key to change is an alliance between residents of the affected neighborhoods, law enforcement, and advocates of drug recovery, not just harm reduction, said the official.

“We need to be focused on insuring that qualified medical practitioners and law enforcement are able to create appropriate regulations and constraints of these sites, rather than just allowing the activists to own this space and make up the rules.”

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/insider-warn…

What's happening in San Francisco is a radical open air medical experiment

The history of radical medical experiments in human history is not great

It should be shut down so that @LondonBreed can take the time to consult with actual addiction experts eg @KeithNHumphreys

“Mothers Against Drug Deaths will protest outside the center at 8 a.m. Sat (tmw) to demand city officials shut down an area where supervised drug use is taking place

“It’s like having an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in an open bar,” said @50RandomActs

kron4.com/news/bay-area/…

Photos from today's protest by Mothers Against Drug Deaths @StopDrugDeaths

The two men who organized the counter-protest against the Mothers are Gary McCoy @rgarymccoy and Paul Harkin, both of @HealthRight360, a major city contractor.

Their actions were unethical and might be illegal

Harkin (left in reflective vest) and McCoy (right in black mask)

Mayor @LondonBreed said “We can’t control who does or doesn’t, do or do not use drugs, at any given location,” but the Mothers @JacquiBerlinn @GMcDee2 @50RandomActs proved her wrong

Look at UN Plaza during the protest. It was safe, clean, and open to the public. Policing works.

Until San Francisco provides fentanyl for free to whoever asks for it, which is where SF's creepy experiment is headed, you still have to get your drugs a half block away from the dealers. They were doing a brisk business this morning.

When journalist @lwoodhouse calmly and politely asked the people protesting the Mothers how they would help people get free from addiction, they called him "hostile" and shut down the interview.

https://twitter.com/lwoodhouse/status/1490173985392193536?s=20&t=AIDuq_9Kyo_Nq-F7-qdWKA