An independent ombudsman's report says caseworkers still struggle in assessing risk early in investigations and when deciding whether to reunite children with parents.
As Overdoses Surge, Biden Blocks Hasty Effort to Expand Addiction Treatment
Susan Stevens shows off a prescription for Suboxone at her home in Lewisville, North Carolina, on March 11, 2019.
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On the campaign trail, President Joe Biden pledged to tackle the opioid crisis and remove federal restrictions on buprenorphine, a lifesaving treatment for opioid addiction. So far, the Biden administration has surprised doctors and addiction experts by moving in the opposite direction.
The Biden administration recently blocked an effort to expand access to buprenorphine, a drug the Biden campaign correctly called a “gold standard” for treating opioid addiction. Major medicalassociations and public health advocates who had applauded the effort, which came in the final days of the Trump administration, were left disappointed by Biden. On Wednesday, the White House said lifting restrictions on addiction medications remains a prio
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In a ceremony on January 25, 2021, United States Attorney Ron Parsons presented several federal prosecutors and law enforcement officials with the prestigious Attorney General’s Award, the highest honor given by the Department of Justice, for their exceptional efforts in the multi-district federal prosecution of Stanley Patrick Weber.
A longtime pediatrician with the Indian Health Service (IHS), Weber was convicted on multiple counts for the sexual abuse of Native American children on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. He was first sentenced in Montana by U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris to 18 years in federal prison. In South Dakota, he was then sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken to five consecutive life sentences plus an additional 45 years, all of which was ordered to also run consecutive to the Montana sentence. Collectively, Weber was fined more than $1 million.
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MS. PSAKI: Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us today. Many familiar faces from yesterday back again. We are pleased to have Dr. Fauci here with us as part of the President’s commitment to have public health experts lead our communication with the American people about the pandemic.
Just to give you a bit of a run of show here: Dr. Fauci will speak at the top about the state of the pandemic, the status of vaccines. He’ll take some of your questions. I will play the role of the bad cop when it’s time for him to go and get to the work of the American people. And then I will do a topper, and I’ll answer a bunch of your questions as well.
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Dallas will receive 5,000 first doses of the coronavirus vaccine next week, separate from allocations to the county and other health care providers, the city says.
The city will set up a drive-up, appointment-based distribution site next week at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center and pull names registered in the existing Dallas County Health and Humans Services database. I am excited and ready to get these highly effective, life-saving vaccines to the public, Mayor Eric Johnson said in a statement. As I have said, the city of Dallas is ready to help the state take its vaccination efforts to the next level. We will do so equitably, efficiently, and without political influence.