Report Paints Grim Picture Of Meth-Related Fatalities In San Diego
"The good news is that San Diego is no longer considered the meth capital of the world. But the bad news is the meth is flowing across our borders like never before," said San Diego County Supervisor Dianne Jacob.
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Report: Deaths From Meth Use On The Rise In San Diego County
Health officials from San Diego county released figures about meth use and fatalities in recent years. The news was not good... Half of all adults arrested in San Diego county in 2015 tested positive for meth. That's up from 30 percent in 2011. (Fudge, 5/11)
In other news from across the state —
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City Detects Elevated Lead Levels In Birney Elementary Drinking Water
City workers have found elevated levels of lead in the drinking water at another San Diego school. The city alerted San Diego Unified Tuesday to the lead test results — 19 parts per billion — at Alice Birney Elementary School in University Heights. (Burks, 5/11)
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Plumas County Policy Demanded Inmate To Return Dentures Upon Release From Jail
A failure to provide adequate dental care was one of a number of alleged constitutional shortcomings that inmates’ rights attorneys identified in a 1989 federal class action lawsuit filed in Sacramento that targeted the Plumas County Jail. In addition to dental care, the plaintiffs also charged that the county fell short of meeting Eighth Amendment standards that protect against cruel and unusual punishment on the matters of jail overcrowding and understaffing, inmate access to legal materials, and a lack of medical and mental health care for inmates. (Furillo, 5/12)