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Free Crack Pipes on Skid Row – ‘Harm Reduction’ or Enablement? – Community Divided | PicsVideo
and other drug paraphernalia to individuals struggling with addiction on Skid Row. Advocates tout this program as a crucial aspect of harm reduction—the belief that by providing safer means of ...
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Skid Row Nation: How L.A.’s Homelessness Crisis Response Spread Across the Country
In Lopez’s view, what created today’s Skid Row includes municipal abandonment combined with methamphetamine, the abdication of drug addiction and mental-illness treatment, misguided charity, ...
UCSF research: Meth use rampant among California’s homeless, treatment elusive for many
A recent study from California researchers found over a third of homeless people were regular drug users. University of California San Francisco researchers surveyed several thousand adults ...
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Neglect, abandonment claims filed against embattled addiction treatment empire
Two former clients have filed new complaints against Nathan Young and his embattled network of addiction treatment ... the program and tossed out onto Skid Row, “a dangerous homeless encampment ...
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Sale of massive Skid Row homeless housing portfolio approved by judge
Along with the earlier transfers of 11 other properties to nonprofit landlords, all 29 buildings previously controlled by the Skid Row Housing ... or dealing with drug addiction, faced broken ...