Homeless Population Dips

Homeless population dips
Beginning in the late 1990s, government agencies and aid groups changed their approach to profiling the homeless, says Nan Roman of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that has tracked the statistics … Read more on Clarksville Leaf Chronicle

Substance Abuse Addictions Contributing To Nationwide Bankruptcy Epidemic
The government agency has posted these startling statistics to reflect the high cost of drug abuse in the U.S. … $ 120 billion in lost productivity, mainly due to labor participation costs, participation in drugabuse treatment, incarceration, and … Read more on San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

Pharmacy groups meet with police
“It provided a little bit more perspective in terms of the overall statistics, because of course when there's a bunch of robberies occurring, people think that it's automatically increasing,” said Stephen Reid, executive director of the Pharmacists … Read more on The Telegram

Local officials and inmates–current and former–talk progress after state …
The programs made possible by state prisoner realignment—ranging from substance abuse treatment to trauma-based care to re-entry planning—are a welcome alternative to doing hard time, and the county Sheriff's and Probation departments already have … Read more on New Times SLO