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California’s Detox Blind Spot: Why Failing to Recognize ASAM 3.7 Is Costing Lives
In California, people are being denied medically necessary detox care not because it isn’t needed, but because the state refuses to clearly name the level of care being provided. ASAM Level 3.7—Medically Monitored Intensive Inpatient Services—is not ambiguous. It…
California Can Fix Recovery Housing—If It Stops Treating It Like Treatment
California keeps circling the same debate about recovery housing without ever landing on a solution. For more than a decade, lawmakers have introduced bills aimed at sober living homes, recovery residences, and supportive recovery housing. Each effort starts from a…
RECOVERY IS HOUSING, NOT A ZONING PROBLEM
Every community in California is grappling with substance use disorder. Families feel it. Employers feel it. Local governments feel it. And everywhere you look, officials are searching for solutions that actually work. One of those solutions already exists: sober…



