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Tag: drug addiction

LA Controller Questions Proposition HHH and High Homeless Housing Costs

February 23, 2022   4:45 pmFebruary 23, 2022   4:50 pm
Citing the high cost – both financially and in human suffering – Los Angeles City Controller Ron Galperin Wednesday took issue with the lack of results produced so far by the city in addressing homelessness. “Although Los Angeles has made...
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‘Safety not Politics’ Says Sacramento Prosecutor Running for District Attorney

February 11, 2022   8:58 am
Thien Ho is Assistant Chief Deputy District Attorney for the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office, and is running for Sacramento County District Attorney. Ho and his family also escaped communist Vietnam and came to the United States in 1976, a...
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Scott D. Wiener

Bill to Create Drug ‘OverDose Prevention Program’ Injection Sites Delayed Until Next Session

July 7, 2021   2:28 amJuly 6, 2021   6:23 pm
A bill to create drug overdose prevention programs, including providing a “place to inject drugs while trained staff are available to help if they suffer accidental overdoses,” was pulled from the Assembly Health Committee on Tuesday, with the committee instead...
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Politicians Prey on Your Compassion

June 1, 2021   9:57 amJune 1, 2021   10:12 am
All Americans, want to help the homeless, it’s in our DNA to help. We are the most giving nation in the world.  Thousands if not millions of Americans volunteer their time at food banks, homeless shelters, and other worthy efforts....
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‘Saying Yes to Drug Addiction, One Drug Den at a Time’

April 22, 2021   2:52 pm
“Saying Yes to Drug Addiction, One Drug Den at a Time,” is a clever title to a very serious problem. California Senate Republicans issued a press statement with this title Thursday over their concerns with Senate Bill 57 by Sen....
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HOMELESSNESS:  Former Incarcerated, Drug Addict and Dealer Shares Story of Sobriety and Success

April 17, 2021   2:28 amApril 16, 2021   5:07 pm
Anthony Brown, who was a homeless, alcoholic, drug addict and drug dealer for 23 years, says, “Jail and prison were the only things that restored me to sanity. I didn’t feel like I was arrested, but more like rescued.” Brown,...
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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...
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