The California Campus Opioid Safety Act requires public colleges and universities to offer educational and preventative information about opioid overdoses to students during orientation. And it requires campus health centers to distribute free dosages of the federally approved opioid overdose reversal medication Naloxone, commonly known as Narcan.
As overdose rates rise across America, Philadelphia is moving to open a supervised injection site that will create meaningful change for the communities most affected by this public health epidemic.
The University of La Verne recently made it mandatory for all incoming students to complete “Think About It,” an online training course designed to educate new students about alcohol, drugs and sexual violence prevention.
In 2011, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 109 and 117. This legislation has attempted to close the revolving door of low-level inmates cycling in and out of California state prisons. According to the state Department of Corrections, AB 109 and 117 are California’s solution for reducing the number of inmates in California’s 33 prisons to 137.5 percent by June 27, 2013.
Hamilton Morris, a 24-year-old writer and filmmaker, is a curious seeker who has taken his work to other-worldly dimensions through his quest to bring firsthand accounts on psychedelic drugs.