California’s Proposition 36 is increasing incarceration and failing to connect people to treatment, according to new data and testimony from justice system leaders.
Pharmaceutical companies have prioritized profits over safety, with lawsuits revealing hidden risks and regulatory failures, resulting in $62 billion in fines and $1.9 trillion in net income from 1991 to 2021.
Sen. Catherine S. Blakespear, D-Encinitas, has introduced legislation to tighten changes to the California Environmental Quality Act, responding to concerns that last year’s reforms created overly broad exemptions for industrial development.
Dentists, parents and public health advocates rallied at the California Capitol to oppose Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget cuts to Medi-Cal Dental, which would reduce preventive care for hundreds of thousands of low-income children across the state.
The City of Berkeley has ordered the closure of an encampment in West Berkeley due to public health concerns related to leptospirosis, prompting criticism from advocates and residents who argue that the city should provide sanitation support and relocation options instead of displacement.
For the first time in US history, births to racial and ethnic minority mothers now outnumber births to white mothers, according to a new analysis of national birth data, highlighting the need for improved access to culturally competent and bilingual maternal care.
Winter storms have left many incarcerated people without heat, reliable electricity, food, water, and medical care, exacerbating existing health risks and increasing mortality rates and suicide levels.
Adolescents in the US face significant barriers to accessing effective drug treatment, with only 31% of children ages 12-17 with an opioid use disorder receiving any form of treatment in the past year.
A comprehensive 2025 evidence review by Fair and Just Prosecution has found that pervasive misinformation has led to harmful policies, public panic, and preventable deaths in the fentanyl crisis, and that public health strategies are working to reduce fentanyl-linked deaths.
The Trump administration abruptly ended hundreds of federal grants supporting behavioral and mental health services, causing concern for addiction treatment, homelessness services and care for people with serious mental illness, but the decision was later reversed.
Fair and Just Prosecution is urging prosecutors to support hospital-based violence intervention programs, which have been proven to reduce repeat violent injury and retaliatory violence, and to adopt policies that protect patients’ rights and limit law enforcement practices that can undermine trauma-informed care.
A recent New York Times opinion piece argues that the fentanyl crisis is rooted in the history of domestic drug markets and U.S. policy failures, rather than being caused by foreign traffickers and Democrats weakening the borders.
Sacramento has successfully met the 2008 National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ground-level ozone, a milestone celebrated by regional and federal officials as a public health and environmental achievement.
A coalition of over 200 organizations is calling on California’s Governor and Legislature to immediately fix the flaws in Senate Bill 131, which they say threatens public health, air and water quality, and natural lands by exempting polluting industries from the California Environmental Quality Act.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is doubling down on a law enforcement response to the city’s fentanyl crisis, despite evidence showing that incarceration does not deter drug use and increases the risk of overdose.
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