Hill joins group fighting addiction crisis
Signal File Photo: Rep. Katie Hill fields questions from KABC's Amy Powell during a town hall event in Palmdale, January 6, 2019. Austin Dave/The Signal

Hill joins group fighting addiction crisis

Rep. Katie Hill, D-Agua Dulce, announced Thursday she will join fellow legislators on the Freshmen Working Group on Addiction, which is a bipartisan effort to promote policies that attempt to…

Agua Dulce man dies from suspected overdose
Los Angeles County Fire Department officials discuss the response to a suspected overdose April 24, 2018. Photo by Austin Dave

Agua Dulce man dies from suspected overdose

Emergency officials were unable to save a man who died in an Agua Dulce residence Monday. An investigation is underway by medical examiners with the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Officer,…

Sheriff’s Station hosting drug take-back event Feb. 15
Signal File photo: Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital hosted a 2017 Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday. The Sheriff's Station is hosting a similar event next Thursday. Nikolas Samuels/The Signal

Sheriff’s Station hosting drug take-back event Feb. 15

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station officials are hosting a drug take-back event Thursday, Feb. 15, according to station officials. Residents are invited to bring unwanted, unused or expired prescription drugs…

Beyond the overdose: addiction’s deadly side effects
Dr. Darrin Privett speaks about the effects of drugs he sees in the emergency room at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital before hundreds of attendees at the city's third "Heroin Kills" symposium held at the Santa Clartia Sports Complex in 2013. Photo by Dan Watson.

Beyond the overdose: addiction’s deadly side effects

Less than 10 days before Christmas, another Santa Clarita Valley family lost a son to the heroin epidemic. It wasn’t an overdose, but a growing concern that’s associated with the…

SCV in recovery: Alex’s story
Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station officials suspect that as many as a half-dozen people have died of drug overdoses this year. The "SCV in Recovery" series is looking at the work of the Sheriff's Station's J-Team in its daily fight against addiction.

SCV in recovery: Alex’s story

Ed. note: This story is the first in an occasional series looking at Santa Clarita Valley residents who are in recovery or part of the constant struggle with the disease…

Addicts, counselors and drug fighters sit down to dinner
Cary Quashen, of Action Family Counseling, welcomes investigator Bob Wachsmuth to Monday's Red Ribbon event. courtesty photo.

Addicts, counselors and drug fighters sit down to dinner

  More than three decades after DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena was murdered by drug traffickers and since the Red Ribbon campaign was launched to raise awareness about the destructiveness…

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