Dr. Drew Pinsky Archives - California Globe

Homeless ‘Tiny’ Apartments Balloon to $425,000 Per Unit in Sacramento

September 16, 2020 8:32 amSeptember 17, 2020 6:49 am

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg has been pushing for permanent housing for the city’s homeless. While that may sound reasonable and even decent, the latest project to provide tiny apartments in a renovated old downtown hotel will cost more than $445,000...

Gov. Newsom and Democrat Mayors Prioritizing Homelesss Over Productive Californians on Lockdown

March 26, 2020 8:15 amMarch 26, 2020 8:26 am

Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the state would provide “emergency aid to local governments” and implement emergency protective measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among the homeless living on California streets. “People experiencing homelessness are among the...

Seven Bay Area Counties in Lockdown Under ‘Unprecedented’ Shelter-in-Place Order Over Coronavirus

March 17, 2020 7:26 amMarch 20, 2020 7:54 am

‘A bad flu season is 80,000 dead. We’ve got about 18,000 dead from influenza this year; we have 100 from corona.’ Seven Bay Area counties announced Monday unprecedented shelter-in-place restrictions, confining millions of residents to their homes for three...

Addiction and mental health physician Dr. Drew Pinsky

The Only Plan to End Homelessness

January 28, 2020 11:46 amJanuary 29, 2020 10:19 am

‘The vast majority have serious mental illness and drug addiction, which means they are not going to magically walk in to housing and have their problems disappear.’ ~ Dr. Drew Pinsky Dr. Drew Pinsky, a board-certified physician and addiction...

Feds Stepping in on California’s Homeless Crisis

January 25, 2020 8:10 amJanuary 26, 2020 4:23 pm

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Friday that he and the federal government have reached a preliminary agreement with the Trump administration on a joint plan to help combat the city’s homelessness crisis by erecting temporary shelters. There has been...

Deafening Silence by Gov. Newsom and New CA Surgeon General on California’s Growing Homeless Public Health Crisis

November 8, 2019 11:43 amNovember 18, 2019 8:22 am

All of this is because of homeless drug addicts who are allowed to defecate, urinate, have sex and bleed in the streets, along rivers and beaches, and in public parks. In January, Gov. Gavin Newsom created the brand new...

Bubonic California

September 3, 2019 2:07 amSeptember 4, 2019 8:35 am

And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may...