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Watch: California Pays Drug Users To Stay Clean
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Watch: California Pays Drug Users To Stay Clean

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KFF Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart appeared on Spectrum News 1’s “LA Times Today” last week to explain how California is trying to help hard-drug users kick their habit by paying them to stay clean.

California was the first state to expand access to this cutting-edge addiction treatment, called “contingency management,” in its Medicaid program. Washington and Montana have since followed.

California is focusing on stimulants like meth and cocaine. Under the program, participants must pee into a cup regularly, and if the urine is free of stimulants, they get paid with a gift card, starting at $10 for the first test. The longer they abstain, the more they’re paid — up to $599 a year.

Click here to watch Hart discuss the treatment on “LA Times Today.”

You can read Hart’s in-depth article about California’s initiative. She also wrote about national efforts to encourage other states to adopt the novel approach.

This article was produced by KFF Health Newswhich publishes California Healthlinean editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation.

Man in California Accused of Atmosphere Off Over 150 Explosions, Basically based on Police
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Man in California Accused of Atmosphere Off Over 150 Explosions, Basically based on Police

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A Pasadena man has been arrested in reference to “over 150 unidentified explosions” within the city at some stage within the last two years, police said.

Art Leon Berian, 62, is accused of surroundings off the explosions, including 14 within the past two weeks alone shut to Allen Avenue and Washington Boulevard, the Pasadena Police Department said in a news unencumber.

Berian changed into identified because the suspect after investigators engaged on this case on Would perchance per chance presumably 16 stumbled upon one other explosion. While acquiring video of a outdated incident, detectives “heard a loud explosion and seen a white cloud in front of them,” the unencumber said.

While purchasing the yell, detectives spotted Berian’s 2013 BMW, one in every of two automobiles registered to the identical proprietor that had been spotted at outdated incidents, police said.

Berian changed into detained, and “proof changed into peaceful from his automobile linked to that explosion,” police said.

He has been charged with three prison counts of explosions with intent to damage or intimidate, though as police fundamental, “miraculously, there had been no reported accidents linked to those explosions.”

He changed into arrested and booked into Pasadena City Penal advanced, the set he changed into held on $1.5 million bail, police said.

Penal advanced records, on the synthetic hand, negate Berian is being held at Males’s Central Penal advanced in lieu of $2.02 million bail.

Officers with the Pasadena Police Department later confirmed to KTLA that the 62-twelve months-frail is being held without bail and his arraignment changed into rescheduled for Would perchance per chance presumably 30.