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How did Frankie Taylor overdose in a state-licensed addiction treatment center?
Third in a regular series. See Dear Gov. Newsom: People are dying in the Rehab Riviera. Do something. and Dear Gov. Newsom: Their daughter’s been swallowed by California’s rehab monster Hey, Gov....
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Dear Gov. Newsom: If addiction is a brain disease, where are all the doctors?
Fourth in a regular series. See Dear Gov. Newsom: People are dying in the Rehab Riviera. Do something, Dear Gov. Newsom: Their daughter’s been swallowed by California’s rehab monster and How did...
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How much opioid settlement money is your county getting and will it help?
“It took away the pain — all the pain,” said a doctor who fell victim to the charms of Oxycontin. “In the brain, in the heart, in the body. That’s what we’re up against.” Every day in California, 20...
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New front opens on Rehab Riviera, skirting toothier laws for addiction...
A mentally ill homeless man stands on a piece of cardboard on a sidewalk in Los Angeles in April. A proposal would put people suffering from severe mental illness into treatment. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)...
View ArticleOwner of Southern California sober living homes sentenced to 2 years for fraud
A Bakersfield attorney who Orange County prosecutors said built a $22 million empire by fraudulently billing insurance firms for urine tests that were either not needed or not completed has been...
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Drug arrests plunge, overdose deaths soar: Connection or coincidence?
Riverside County jail inmates (File photo) Once upon a time, California’s jails were stuffed with low-level drug offenders. This was wastefully expensive for the public and wholly ineffective for the...
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Gold standard for opioid treatment has gotten cold shoulder
If addiction is a disease, a wise psychiatrist once asked, where are all the doctors? We told you recently about an interesting, and perhaps tragic, convergence of events: • Drug offense arrests in...
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Grieving mother, critics blame celebrity rehab, say subpar care led to death
Dear Gov. Newsom: Here’s a real California story for you. Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra, Phyllis Diller and Bob Hope are immortalized on Palm Springs’ Walk of the Stars — and so is reality TV celebrity...
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‘Sober living homes were little more than drug dens,’ lawsuit says
Dear Gov. Newsom: Thanks for the new laws. Thanks for the new inspectors. Thanks, I guess, for trying, even a little. But — and isn’t there always a but? — it’s not working. And it’s maddening that the...
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Addiction treatment violations finally would be public under Assembly bill
Back when we started writing about fraud and abuse and death in California’s private-pay addiction treatment centers in 2017, we had to wait months for copies of inspection reports and violations from...
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