Lawmakers expected to endorse settlement between state, mental health clients
A legislative resolution that lays out a settlement between the mental health department and a group that sued the state is ...
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Accountability at the heart of governor’s substance abuse treatment plans
The plan also proposes to provide mental health services at prisons instead of hospitals for those offenders taken into ... co-occurring mental health and substance use, which also allows us ...
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Oklahoma House advances mental health settlement agreement to Senate
The 91-0 vote moves the state one step closer to settling a 2023 lawsuit that alleged the Oklahoma Department of Mental ...
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People are getting arrested under California’s new tough-on-crime law. Some counties aren’t ready
A key part of California's Proposition 36 promised to direct people convicted of certain drug crimes to treatment. Counties ...
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The opioid crisis is a crime. So addiction treatment should be free.
For people who study the opioid epidemic, 2025 marks a grim anniversary: It has been 30 years since the Food and Drug Administration approved the opioid OxyContin for the treatment of chronic pain.
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A plan to cure the homeless overdose epidemic
Provo, this week presented the second of two comprehensive homelessness bills that he is spearheading this legislative session.
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Opposition lobbies for conversion of Harare Mayor Mafume’s Belvedere home into drug rehabilitation centre
Spread This NewsBy Staff Reporter AN opposition political outfit, Labour Economists and African Democrats (LEAD) has called ...