Alcoholics Learn To Make Their Own Beer In Canadian Program

Interesting way to go:  "we'd rather them drink something they made than hand sanitizer."

I found the following story on the NPR iPhone App:

Alcoholics Learn To Make Their Own Beer In Canadian Program
by Bill Chappell

NPR - February 21, 2014

Call it a new twist on the old "teach a man to fish" adage. A group in Vancouver, British Columbia, is teaching inveterate alcoholics to brew their own beer and make their own wine, in an attempt to keep them from drinking unsafe liquids to get an alcoholic high....

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/21/280885577/alcoholics-learn-to-make-their-own-beer-in-canadian-program?sc=17&f=1001