More regulation of addiction treatment and sober living proposed for 2025
Many of the new bills in Sacramento aim to remedy the flaws exposed in the audit. The League of California Cities has thrown ...
‘Lots of red flags’: Drug rehab recruiters from California fuel concerns over ‘body brokers’ in Hawaii
They are recruiting people for substance abuse treatment homes in California, and have already succeeded in getting some to ...
For more than an hour, he called for help as he was tortured to death in a California jail. ‘No one came,’ his family says.
The man who killed Brandon Yates was known to be violent, and was already classified as “keep separate” — not to be placed in ...
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7 takeaways from CalMatters’ investigation into California homeless shelters
Emergency shelters are supposed to be a safe haven, but records show they’re ineffective — and rife with abuse and scandal.
Los Angeles County has cut homelessness, but wildfires threaten to erase that gain
As Los Angeles looks to recover from historic wildfires, previously unsheltered and chronically homeless people are facing ...
An unconventional treatment for meth addicts — gift card payments — takes off in the Bay Area
Rewards for sobriety aren’t new, but the drug treatment strategy is scaling up in the Bay Area and California.
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California school districts are weighed down by new costs of old sexual assaults
California’s elementary and secondary school system “will survive the challenge presented by the claims of childhood sexual assault. But individual school districts, charter schools and other agencies ...