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An independent ombudsman's report says caseworkers still struggle in assessing risk early in investigations and when deciding whether to reunite children with parents.
As Overdoses Surge, Biden Blocks Hasty Effort to Expand Addiction Treatment Susan Stevens shows off a prescription for Suboxone at her home in Lewisville, North Carolina, on March 11, 2019. Eamon Queeney / For The Washington Post via Getty Images By On the campaign trail, President Joe Biden pledged to tackle the opioid crisis and remove federal restrictions on buprenorphine, a lifesaving treatment for opioid addiction. So far, the Biden administration has surprised doctors and addiction experts by moving in the opposite direction. The Biden administration recently blocked an effort to expa...
Pierre, SD, USA / DRGNews Jan 28, 2021 7:46 AM In a ceremony on January 25, 2021, United States Attorney Ron Parsons presented several federal prosecutors and law enforcement officials with the prestigious Attorney General’s Award, the highest honor given by the Department of Justice, for their exceptional efforts in the multi-district federal prosecution of Stanley Patrick Weber. A longtime pediatrician with the Indian Health Service (IHS), Weber was convicted on multiple counts for the sexual abuse of Native American children on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and Blackfeet Res...
The White House 4:03 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI: Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us today. Many familiar faces from yesterday back again. We are pleased to have Dr. Fauci here with us as part of the President’s commitment to have public health experts lead our communication with the American people about the pandemic. Just to give you a bit of a run of show here: Dr. Fauci will speak at the top about the state of the pandemic, the status of vaccines. He’ll take some of your questions. I will play the role of the bad cop when it’s time for him to go and get to the work of the America...
Updated on January 22, 2021 at 6:43 pm NBCUniversal, Inc. Dallas will receive 5,000 first doses of the coronavirus vaccine next week, separate from allocations to the county and other health care providers, the city says. The city will set up a drive-up, appointment-based distribution site next week at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center and pull names registered in the existing Dallas County Health and Humans Services database. "I am excited and ready to get these highly effective, life-saving vaccines to the public," Mayor Eric Johnson said in a statement. "As I have said, the city o...