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Betty Ford Center. / 33.7630802°N 116.4013637°W / 33.7630802; -116.4013637. The Betty Ford Center ( BFC) is a non-profit, residential treatment center for persons with substance dependence in Rancho Mirage, California. It offers inpatient, outpatient, and residential day treatment for alcohol and other drug addictions, as well as ...
Synanon was founded in 1958 by Charles Dederich Sr., a member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) from Santa Monica, California. [ 3] At the time of Synanon's founding, those suffering from drug addiction were not always welcomed into AA because their issues were considered significantly different from those of alcoholics.
Legal challenges were made by opponents soon after its approval, and a pair of same-sex couples filed a lawsuit against the initiative in federal court in the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger (later Hollingsworth v. Perry). In their 2010 campaigns, California attorney general Jerry Brown and Harris both pledged to not defend Prop 8. [51]
94.64. [ edit on Wikidata] The 2010 ISCD study "Drug Harms in the UK: a multi-criteria decision analysis " found that alcohol scored highest overall and in Economic cost, Injury, Family adversities, Environmental damage, and Community harm. Drug rehabilitation is the process of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment for dependency on ...
Gold Rush era Portrait of a Californiowoman of Hispanic descent. Women in the California Gold Rush, which began in Northern California in 1848, initially included Spanish descendants, or Californios, who already lived in California, Native American women, and rapidly arriving immigrant women from all over the world.
[105] [106] [107] This deeply upset Rodger, who retreated to his room and called his mother, expressing his frustration over the attention black men received from blonde women instead of him. [22] [96] [108] Rodger found it hard to get along with several different roommates and chose to spend much of his time alone.
Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman serving since 2019 as the 40th governor of California.A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019 and the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
Various issues in medicine relate to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. According to the US Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), besides HIV/AIDS, issues related to LGBT health include breast and cervical cancer, hepatitis, mental health, substance use disorders, alcohol use, tobacco use, depression, access to care for transgender persons, issues surrounding marriage and ...