SACRAMENTO – The Senate Health Committee today unanimously approved Senate Bill 1290 by Senate Republican Leader Patricia Bates (R-Laguna Niguel) that would end the practice of treating people with drug addiction as commodities that can be bought, sold and exploited by residential treatment facilities (RTF). “Fraud in the residential treatment facility industry has harmed patients and wasted taxpayer dollars, […]
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