Mayor Ed Lee Raises Prospect of Adopting Form of Laura's Law

Mayor Ed Lee raises prospect of adopting form of Laura's Law
He was talking about – at least in some form – Laura's Law, the much-debated and little-used state law passed in 2002 that allows a judge to order outpatient treatment for the seriously mentally ill. Efforts to implement it in San Francisco under …
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Addiction Treatment Specialists Say Heroin Deaths Avoidable
And it happens very quickly,” said Allegra Schorr, an owner of the West Midtown Medical Group, an outpatient addiction-treatment center in Manhattan, and president of the Committee of Methadone Program Administrators of New York State. Physician Stuart …
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