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ARTICLES - CALIFORNIA AND NATIONAL

6/12/18    Who should pay for the cost to cities of opioid abuse?

Cities and states are suing Purdue Pharma.

6/11/18 Policing the addiction treatment industry

A general criticism of different facets of the addiction treatment industry.

6/10/18    Actor Jackson Odell died at 20 in sober living facility; coroner defers cause of death

Best known for his role in ABC’s The Goldbergs, Odell was found unresponsive on

Friday in the sober living facility where he was in treatment.

6/8/18 Newport Beach City Council to weigh in on sober living, needle exchange proposals

The Newport Beach City Council will consider sending a letter in support of Rohrabacher’s

“Restoring Community Oversight of Sober Living Homes Act of 2018” (H.R. 5724).

6/8/18  Leveraging an American epidemic

A recent history of addiction treatment, particularly relating to the industry’s finances.

6/8/18  Big Pharma’s avoidable role in the man-made opioid epidemic

Purdue Pharma’s unique marketing practices played a significant role in the opioid epidemic.

6/7/18 What do these political ads have in common? The opioid crisis.

Across parties, politicians use the opioid crisis to woo voters through ads.

6/6/18  Health care CEO and four physicians charged in superseding indictment in connection with $200 million health care fraud scheme involving

unnecessary prescription of controlled substances and harmful injections

Tri-County Wellness sought funding from Medicare for unnecessary injections and urine

tests.

6/4/18 Temecula based treatment provider accused of fraud

Man who ran the Southern California Detox Treatment and Recovery allegedly cheated

five insurance companies out of $2.7 million dollars over five years.

6/3/18 Opponents of new sober-living home warn of ‘Rehab Riviera’

Residents worry Encinitas may be the next stop on the Rehab Riviera as new sober home

opens.

NEWS - OTHER STATES

6/10/18 Prescott’s total of sober-living homes drops below 30 (AZ)

6/8/18 New alliance aims for greater oversight of sober homes (CT)

6/8/18 This woman went to rehab and says it was the worst decision of her life — Here’s why (FL)

6/8/18 Investigation underway after man found dead for 37 days inside recovery center (NY)

http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/individuals/Pages/Sud-Complaints.aspx

https://www.samhsa.gov

https://www.caregiver.org/adult-protective-services-and-elder-abuse-hotline-1

https://www.travelersaid.org

http://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/101-help

https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org

https://freehab.net

https://www.drugabuse.gov

https://www.compassionatefriends.org

https://leavingaa.com/welcome-to-leaving-aa-alcoholics-anonymous-or-narcotics-anonymous

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/welfare-and-institutions-code/wic-sect-4502.html

https://adata.org/factsheet/ADA-overview

https://www.ada.gov/pubs/ada.htm

http://nasadad.org/

Email me your story with a picture and I will post it here. We either stand for something or we will fall for everything!

 Current California Rules
The different places where a drug addict can go for treatment and recovery are:

• Oversight by the Department of Public Health and provides “lay your head down” medical treatment.
  
• Patient’s safety is assured.
  

• Oversight by the Department of Public Health and provides “lay your head down” medical treatment
  
• Oversight by the Department of Health Care Services
  
• Patient’s safety is assured
  
• Medications are dispensed, medical services provided, but Department of Health Care Services specific
  

• Oversight by the Department of Health Care Services given by the State of California for individuals overcoming addiction.  Department of Health Care Services investigates any violations.
  
• 24 hour live-in residences which must have an Department of Health Care Services license
  

• Detoxification
  
• Group counseling
  
• Individual counseling
  
• Educational sessions
  
• Learning sessions
  
• Relapse prevention education
  
• Recovery planning
  
• Treatment planning
  
• Residents can take their own medication.  Facility can keep it locked up but cannot actually dispense it.
  

• Not licensed by the Department of Health Care Services
  
• Can be anyone’s home – from a room in Grandma’s house, to your entire home, to a “Sober Living Home”
  
• Individual agrees not to drink or use drugs while living in this home
  
• People are doing inappropriate things – such as crowding people into rooms, and housing them in inappropriate structures, such as sheds and not providing adequate bathroom facilities
  
• City and local enforcement has authority over these homes but there is no consistency in enforcement of building codes

 **************H.R.4684  ************ Ensuring Access to Quality Sober Living Act of 2018115th Congress (2017-2018) | Get alerts

California State Bills Still Moving Forward:

AB 3162 - Friedman, Allen, Stern and Quirk-Silva (Support)
Referred to Senate Committee on Health (passed in Assembly)
It assesses higher penalties for violations.  It creates a one year provisional period in licensing, and if licensing provisions were broken, the person could not reapply for licensure for 2 years.  It requires that the state inspect unlicensed houses alleged to be providing licensed services and shut them down if they are operating without a license.  Sponsored by City of Malibu in cooperation with DHCS.
SB 992 - Hernandez (Chair of the Senate Health Committee and running for Lt. Gov. ) (Support) 
Referred to Assembly Committee on Health (passed in Senate)
Requires Treatment Centers to identify the unlicensed houses with which they have relationships… calls them “Recovery Residences.”  Creates a registry of Recovery Residences.   Requires a residence have a plan for when a patient relapses. 
SB 1228 - Lara,  (Lara is running for State Insurance Commissioner) (Oppose)
Referred to Assembly Committees on Health and Public Safety (passed in Senate)
The "Substance Use Disorder Patient Protection Act" claims it would make patient-brokering a crime, but then is unclear what the penalties would be. This bill would require that those in the penal system be routed strictly to facilities or residences that are licensed or certified.  It creates a list of procedures that would need to be followed to be certified and proposes that DHCS will approve of third-party certification entities.  Sponsored by Recovery Reform Now.
SB 1268 - Bradford (Oppose)
Referred to Assembly Committee on Health (passed in Senate)
Makes patient brokering in addiction treatment programs punishable by a $2500 fine and a misdemeanor