The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban the sale of kratom products, which has been described as “gas station heroi…
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For years, social media companies have disputed allegations that they harm children's mental health through the way they design their platforms, deliberately addicting kids and failing to protect them from sexual predators and dangerous content. Now, these tech giants are getting a chance to make their case in courtrooms around the country, including before a jury for the first time. Some of the biggest players from Meta to TikTok are facing federal and state trials that seek to hold them responsible for harming children's mental health
Currently, it’s uncertain where the 25-year-old inmate who accidentally overdosed at the Maple Street Correctional Facility procured the presc…
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The San Francisco Department of Public Health is aiming to treat the underlying cause of drug addiction to mitigate the city’s overdose deaths…
Another opioid settlement case from a major corporation is underway throughout the United States and could funnel more money to California, in…
California seized more than 28,000 pounds of fentanyl over the past year. That's a nearly six-fold increase in the amount of the drug recovered a year earlier. State officials said Friday that the California National Guard contributed to the seizures, hiring and training more than 160 members to work on fentanyl-reducing efforts. Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state is working to protect people from the dangerous drugs. States are grappling with an addiction and overdose crisis that has grown deadlier due to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Officials say the drugs seized in California were estimated at a street value of $230 million.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta, alongside 17 other attorneys general, announced a $5.7 billion settlement agreement with the pharmacy r…
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One Life Counseling Center in San Carlos is looking to expand the public’s toolkit when it comes to combating drug overdose by distributing fr…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In an filthy alley behind a Los Angeles doughnut shop, Ryan Smith convulsed in the grips of a fentanyl high — lurching from…
