Legislators, law enforcement officials, health professionals and industry representatives emphasized the need Wednesday for a robust regulatory framework that includes monitoring and ensuring the quality of treatment facilities while providing for enforcement that has teeth.
Of all the things experts believe are needed to more effectively regulate and oversee California’s substance abuse treatment industry, perhaps the most important can be summed up in one word: teeth.
During about three hours, she and two of her colleagues in the Legislature — Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva and state Sen. Patricia Bates — listened to input from residents and panels of speakers about how best to tackle problems in the addiction-treatment industry.“There’s a ton of work that we need to do here,” Petrie-Norris told the crowd of more than 60. “This is such an important issue.
The Sheriff’s Department, he added, “will issue citations, will continue to respond to calls, will work to resolve problems, but without proper regulatory backbone for this industry, our efforts cannot be successful.”Communities around Orange County and the state have for years contended with the effects of residential addiction-treatment facilities and sober-living homes.
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