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California can and must do more to prevent opioid overdose

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by ROBB LAYNE posted 10.05.2023

OPINION: The “fourth wave” of the opioid epidemic is crashing through the state, causing a dramatic increase in overdose deaths. To address this, addiction treatment professionals, law enforcement, behavioral health advocates, and families impacted by overdose have come together to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign Senate Bill 641 by Senator Richard Roth (D-Riverside) into law.

Dogs sniff out prison cell phones

Caesar, a dog trained to sniff out cell phones, searches the state prison in Vacaville. (Photo: AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

by MAURICE CHAMMAH posted 06.09.2016

The Marshall Project: Two years ago, a Belgian Malinois named Drako earned a flurry of press attention when his proud owners at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced he had found his thousandth contraband cell phone in the state’s prisons. He’d once found thirty stashed in a microwave, and one hidden in a jar of peanut butter.