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Street Medicine Team’s Behavioral Health Care Builds Trust with Inland Empire’s Unhoused Residents
Long-acting injectables and other medications offer lifelines to patients with substance-use disorder and mental health challenges
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Blueprint for Sobering Care in California: Implementation Guide
Sobering centers provide a safe, short-term alternative to emergency departments and jails for people experiencing acute intoxication from alcohol or other drugs. This resource guide supports the development, implementation, and sustaining of sobering centers in California.
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Community Health Centers Find New Ways to Bring Lifesaving Care to Patients with Substance Use Disorder
The result is care that meets patients where they are by blending trust, follow-through, and a strong dose of compassion.
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Substance Use in California Almanac — 2025 Edition
Substance Use in California: Prevalence and Treatment uses the most recent data available to provide an overview of substance use and addiction in California. Topics include prevalence of substance use, emergency department visits, deaths, and treatment.
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In a Nation Growing Hostile Toward Drugs and Homelessness, Los Angeles Tries Leniency
As they contend with a homeless population estimated around 75,000, LA County leaders embrace harm reduction, a range of more lenient strategies that can include helping people more safely use drugs.
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Patients in Crisis Get Face-to-Face Help from ‘Bridge Navigators’ in the Emergency Department
CHWs are pioneering a way a way to ease the overload in hospital emergency rooms and steer patients toward lifesaving therapies.
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Health Plan Technical Assistance
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Sobering Centers
Although the health system cannot fix every part of the homelessness crisis, there are important roles it can play. CHCF envisions a future where different systems work together effectively so people are housed and healthy.
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Santa Cruz Sobering Center Benefits Patients and County Justice System
County residents support this low-barrier entry point to substance use treatment and mental health care.
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Expanding Access to Mental Health Care for Seriously Ill Patients
A San Ysidro Health program is reimagining mental health and substance use disorder treatment as part of a federally supported effort to make behavioral health care better for Medi-Cal enrollees.
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Substance Use Disorder in California — a Focused Landscape Analysis
This landscape identifies barriers that people with substance use disorder face in accessing care and points to opportunities to improve the system to help them receive the care they need.
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Promotor Training Seeks to Improve Outcomes for Latinos/x With Substance Use Disorder
Building on many years helping Latinos/x manage and prevent diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic conditions, 20 promotores in San Francisco completed a new type of specialized training.
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California Pays Meth Users to Get Sober
California’s Medi-Cal program is testing a novel approach for people addicted to methamphetamine, cocaine, and other stimulants. For every negative urine test, they can earn money — up to $599 a year.
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CalAIM Community Supports Early Adopters: Spotlight on Sobering Centers
Learn implementation tips from two organizations in Orange County partnering successfully to offer sobering services. Sobering centers provide an alternative destination for people publicly intoxicated and who might otherwise be transported to an emergency department or jail.
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CalAIM Explained: Caring for Californians Leaving Incarceration
This short guide is designed for health care providers who are serving people leaving incarceration and returning to their communities. It includes correctional system basics and an overview of the reentry process.
