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California’s inexcusable resistance to stronger opioid overdose treatments

by Guest Commentary October 25, 2022October 24, 2022

As the opioid epidemic worsens, California officials have so far declined to use a stronger overdose treatment approved by the FDA last year.

Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to the press during a visit to Ruby Bridges Elementary School in Alameda on March 16, 2021. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters

Will Newsom OK supervised drug injection sites?

by Emily Hoeven August 11, 2022August 10, 2022

A behavioral health fellow with the Baltimore City Health Department, displays a sample of Narcan nasal spray in Baltimore, Maryland. The overdose-reversal drug is a critical tool to easing America's coast-to-coast opioid epidemic. A record 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco in 2020. Jan. 23, 2018. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

Newsom’s $50 million opioids education pledge comes as colleges warn of risks

by Emily Forschen, Itzel Luna and Colleen Murphy January 18, 2022January 16, 2022

Workers remove the statue of John Sutter outside the Sutter Medical Center in Midtown Sacramento on June 15, 2020. Photo by Andrew Nixon / CapRadio

Statues of Columbus, other colonialists removed

by Emily Hoeven June 17, 2020June 16, 2020

Breanna Dixon at St. John of God Healthcare Services in Victorville, where she recently completed residential treatment. Photo by Adam Perez for CalMatters

A collision of epidemics: Coronavirus disrupts addiction treatment

by Rachel Becker June 16, 2020September 29, 2021

Gov. Gavin Newsom holds a press conference in the wake of the first COVID-19 death in California, a man who took a cruise from San Francisco to Mexico in February. The governor outlined measures being taken by the state to identify and test all other individuals who were on the same cruise ship as the deceased. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Super Tuesday updates + Prolonged vote counting + A COVID-19 patient dies as authorities try to contain the spread

by Dan Morain March 5, 2020March 5, 2020

Blowback on ethnic studies, mental illness, fighting to save forests, and cannabis

by Dan Morain August 9, 2019August 8, 2019

Safe water, opioid sales, CBD, and a charity runs afoul of Xavier Becerra

by Dan Morain and Barbara Harvey July 25, 2019July 25, 2019

Lead paint, soda taxes, overdoses, the safety net, and really big rodents

by Dan Morain and Barbara Harvey July 18, 2019July 17, 2019

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An opioid suit, an opioid tax and a piece of history

by Dan Morain June 4, 2019