state to require mental health warning labels on social media sites if lawmakers pass a bill introduced Monday. The legislation sponsored by state Attorney General Rob Bonta is necessary to bolster safety for children online, supporters say, but industry officials vow to fight the measure and ...
Assembly Bill 2115by Assemblyman Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) changes California's laws on methadone access, aligning them with the federal guidelines set by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration....
- California’s governor proposed a plan Thursday to offer more services to homeless people with severe mental health and addiction disorders even if that means compelling some into care, a move that many advocates of homeless people oppose as a violation of civil rights. Gov. Gavin Newsom said...
The legislation makes California the latest state to try to curb student phone access in an effort to minimize distractions in the classroom and address the mental health impacts of social media on children. Florida,Louisiana, Indiana and several other states have passed laws aimed...
Amid concerns that some felony defendants could be misusing California's Mental Health Diversion Court to have their violent crimes dismissed, a CBS News California investigation found that there is no reliable data to indicate how successful the state program is. ...
The legislation makes California the latest state to try to curb student phone access in an effort to minimize distractions in the classroom and address the mental health impacts of social media on children. Florida, Louisiana, Indiana and several other states have passed laws aimed at restricting...
“It will raise public awareness and turn the tide in this public health crisis,” Bauer-Kahan said. Advertisement The move comes after U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy also called for warning labels on social media this year. In anop-edpublished in the New York Times, Murthy said that ...
The legislation makes California the latest state to try to curb student phone access in an effort to minimize distractions in the classroom and address the mental health impacts of social media on children. Florida, Louisiana, Indiana and several other states have passed laws aimed at ...
Mental health and addiction are crises that impact cities around the Bay Area and up and down the state. Now state Senator Susan Eggman from Stockton has introduced a pair of bills aimed at making it easier to get someone into treatment if it's determined they can't do it for themselves....
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