SACRAMENTO (KPIX) -- As a public safety advocate, Wendy McEntyre has been doing the work the State of California has failed to do for more than a decade. "It's been 15 years of rolling a snowball ...

California is spending hundreds of millions on housing and re-entry programs for former inmates – but isn't tracking if those programs are doing anything to change criminal behavior. In collaboration ...

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Yuba City, CA / / December 17, 2025 / Addiction Resource Center LLC. Key Takeaways California substance abuse centers now ...

Seems that dead bodies, overdoses and insurance fraud aren’t quite enough to spur California to overhaul its private-pay addiction treatment system, but hats off to the legislators who keep trying, ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters. As Gov. Gavin Newsom retools the state’s prison system to emphasize rehabilitation, his administration has little evidence that a ...

A series of columns addressing the challenges consumers face in California’s health care landscape. Send questions to [email protected]. Pattie Vargas saw with frightening clarity that her son Joel, 25 ...

Seven former employees of Executive Recovery Group, a California-based rehabilitation center, have filed a lawsuit accusing the company of fostering a deeply hostile work environment, Law & Crime ...

At a time when the U.S. government is trying to deal with a nationwide opioid epidemic, many jails across the country are only now rolling out medicines to help inmates overcome addiction. And most of ...

Detoxing from drugs or alcohol is the most dangerous and most expensive phase of rehab. But a third of all California rehab centers aren’t staffed by doctors. Many of these so-called “non-medical” ...

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