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/PRNewswire/ --The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) has issued technical assistance, followed by a Notice of Violation,...
Share this article Share this article SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The ingredients for corruption are simple: an infusion of cash, poor regulations, and vulnerable patients. For one CEO of a medium-sized non-profit in California the recipe for disaster was clear early on. In the summer of 2015, Pete Nielsen, the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP) leader and CEO, sat at his austere desk fielding calls about a new phenomenon hitting the industry: the selling of addiction patients for cash. Following the passage of the Affordable Care Act,...
Senator Thomas Umberg (D-Orange County) introduced The California Ethical Treatment of Persons with Addiction Act, (Senate Bill 349) a critical and timely new law to protect California’s most vulnerable patients, those seeking treatment for substance use disorders, from predatory practices. Senator Umberg shared that 7,121 Californians tragically died of drug overdoses (79,251 nationally) in the 12-month period ending in May 2020. This is part of a skyrocketing rise, with overdose deaths in California up 26.8% in the period between June 2019 and June 2020. Nationally, in that same time fram...
States were counting on, things lawmakers had fought for. ironically, one of the things is drug intradiction funds. >> right. >> the very thing the president is calling a national emergency, the funds he would divert elsewhere. >> that's one of the things i heard from those in congress, particularly on the arms services committee. i don't think there's just democrats in terms of congress, these projects they had to wait in line for these military construction projects. but to your point with the drug and addiction programs, they seek to stop the drugs in the country where they come from, rathe...
Conversation. these leaks continue from inside the white house. the question is, why? >> there's any number of reasons. first, let me address a comment he made. once again, it's not so much what he said, it's how he said it. there's no disputing the fact there is a drug abuse problem in new hampshire and many states. that's why we are having the conversation about opioid addiction and funding addiction programs to help curb the problem in many states, including new hampshire. as for the leaks and why we are having them, there's a number of reasons. it could be because someone feels they are be...