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Fentanyl bill reintroduced in California Legislature as overdose deaths surge
They were as young as 14, 16, 18. Seeking celebration, relief, escape. Many were inexperienced users who thought they were taking OxyContin, or ecstasy, or cocaine, but were fooled by an even more...
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Movie about drug rehab’s dark side sparks pushback, even as legislators seek...
The fast-cut trailer to the new movie “Body Brokers” is a dizzying and seductive collage of guns, cash, addiction and prostitutes, punctuated by a nicely dressed man holding a finger to his pursed lips...
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Parents demand social media giants boot online drug peddlers
The Instagram accounts belonged to “fentanyl_top” and “mass_chemical_drugs” — the 21st century cyber street corners teens visit when looking for an escape, a high, a party. Alexander Neville (Courtesy...
View ArticleDept. of Justice: Orange County is now nation’s center for addiction fraud
The Dept. of Justice is filing criminal charges against ten people who run drug and alcohol addiction businesses in Orange County, saying the county has overtaken South Florida as the national...
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Rehab Riviera: Insurer wins big racketeering, fraud verdict against defunct...
It was a vicious back-and-forth over who was truly evil — the big bad insurance company, refusing to pay for desperately needed addiction treatment for vulnerable patients? Or the greedy, manipulative...
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Rehab doctor Randy Rosen pleads guilty to insurance fraud
The surgeon who was accused of building a luxurious life on the backs of often-desperate drug users eager to make a buck — even if it meant enduring unnecessary surgeries, getting unnecessary lab tests...
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Rehab Riviera: New law hopes to keep rehabs from misleading patients, families
“Medically supervised!” boast so many addiction treatment centers — even though they’re explicitly “non-medical.” Matthew Maniace died in a Lake Arrowhead detox that said it was “clinically supervised”...
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Strips to test drinks and pills for ‘date rape’ drugs and fentanyl are...
I will be dropping my daughter off for her freshman year of college in less than two weeks. I am a quivering, gelatinous mass of maternal angst. But I, along with the rest of California, got an assist...
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New Tyler’s Law aims to curb fentanyl deaths with ER screening
When you lose a child, the what-ifs can be paralyzing. Juli Shamash is part of an unfortunately robust army that’s channeling that agony into change, to spare others from ever having to endure it. Her...
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Dear Gov. Newsom: People are dying in the Rehab Riviera. Do something
Hey, Gov. Newsom! Hope you’re doing well up there. For us? Down here, you know, not so much. I can’t believe it but it has been six years since the Southern California News Group began chronicling the...
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Riverside County drug rehab center reopens after state-ordered shutdown
The Arlington Recovery Community and Sobering Center is now fully back in business. The residential treatment wing of the Riverside County-owned facility reopened Monday, April 3, almost four months...
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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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Rehab Riviera: New law hopes to keep rehabs from misleading patients, families
“Medically supervised!” boast so many addiction treatment centers — even though they’re explicitly “non-medical.” Matthew Maniace died in a Lake Arrowhead detox that said it was “clinically supervised”...
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Rehab Riviera: New law hopes to keep rehabs from misleading patients, families
“Medically supervised!” boast so many addiction treatment centers — even though they’re explicitly “non-medical.” Matthew Maniace died in a Lake Arrowhead detox that said it was “clinically supervised”...
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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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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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