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Feds roll back ‘confusing’ addiction funding rules that had deadly consequence in Pa.
Ed Mahon of Spotlight PA
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HARRISBURG A federal agency that sends billions of dollars to states to help them respond to the opioid crisis is rolling back part of a policy that caused widespread confusion in Pennsylvania, wrongly preventing at least one person who later died of an overdose from accessing addiction treatment.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has eliminated language that prohibited grant recipients from providing federal funding “to any individual who or organization that provides or permits marijuana use for the purposes of treating substance use or mental disorders.”
A management plan for the Marolt Open Space is designed to leave it mostly the same, with perhaps a small bike park on the southwest corner after the community weighs in.
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O Neil on their wedding day - June 5, 2021.
The future s so bright, you ve got to wear shades - Christy and Ted Mahon, Lea Tucker, Sean Shean.
Megan Shean O Neil, Rabbi Igael Iggy Gurin-Malous and Patrick O Neil.
Andreas Jungwirth and Corey Reardon traveled from Amsterdam for the wedding, winning for farthest afield in attendance.
Sweet siblings Addie, Margaret and Finn O Neil at their dad s wedding to Megan Shean.
Bridgett Niekamp, maid of honor Quinn Shean and Jill Wynne.
Aspen family Janice, Wesley, Ezra and Madison Louthis.
The Shean-O Neil wedding party from program attendant to ring bearer to best man.
Pa. can’t fine addiction treatment facilities that break rules, but some lawmakers want to change that
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Rep. Mark Gillen (R., Berks) wants to give the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs the power to fine licensed addiction treatment facilities for violating state rules.
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By Ed Mahon of Spotlight PA
HARRISBURG On his drive to and from the state Capitol, state Rep. Mark Gillen often sees a state trooper’s vehicle.
“They usually don’t yell out the window to slow down,” said Gillen, a Berks County Republican. “If you’re going too fast, you’re going to get stopped, and you’re going to get fined, and it changes behavior.”