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The program at eight local VA hospitals offers clean supplies, mental health care, and other services to reduce some of the risks of substance abuse.

Doctors, pharmacists and frontline health workers have created a safety net for active drug users in Ottawa Canada that aims to slow the rate of fatal overdoses by helping people get high more safely.

The ACA has required health insurers to provide many medical screenings and other preventive services with no out-of-pocket cost to health plan members. But a recent court decision could upend that.

City officials said the people were blocking a sidewalk that had to be cleaned to prevent disease.

After the union vote, the district said it had pushed back the return of K-8 teachers and staff until Wednesday to "ensure we reach a resolution without a disruption to student learning."

Minors age 12 to 17 in California can already receive vaccinations for hepatitis B and HPV that prevent sexually transmitted diseases without parental permission. The teen consent bill was one of several coronavirus-related bills that faced heavy opposition.

The introduction of AB 262 follows a state report released last month detailing the ways in which the San Diego County government could have mitigated the effects of the outbreak.

Newsom's veto Monday comes amid a spike in overdose deaths amid a national opioid crisis.

Subsequent variants of monkeypox will be named using Roman numerals for the clade, and lowercase letters for the subclade.

The forum was conducted in an effort to better inform the public about the county's response to the virus.