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<p>Because of San Francisco’s pharmaceutical dropoff pilot program, residents can now dispose of their medicines — for free — at 16 pharmacies and five police stations in the city.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Addressing an issue as complex as prescription drug abuse among elderly adults starts with educating the public.</p>

<p>Antioch University Santa Barbara&nbsp;has long been committed to understanding addiction and developing methods to effectively treat it. Three programs prove the point.</p>

<p>With an increase in anxiety and stress, counselor Lacey Johnson said she has seen a rise in the use and mixture of powerful and dangerous substances among some students at UCSB.</p>

<p>Parkland Memorial Hospita has for years been one of the state’s worst-performing hospitals on a broad federal measure of patient safety, a Dallas Morning News analysis shows.&nbsp;Hospital representatives accepted the accuracy of the calculations, but they questioned how well the data reflected actual performance and current hospital conditions.&nbsp;</p><div>&nbsp;</div>

<p>So how can a hospital be judged so deficient by federal inspectors, yet rank among the best in U.S. News &amp; World Report?</p><p>It's all in the methodology.</p><div>&nbsp;</div>

<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To identify rates of potentially preventable medical harm, The Dallas Morning News&nbsp; analyzed nearly 9 million patient-level records from hospitals across Texas.</span></p>

<p>Have expensive efforts to create a healthy, walkable and bikeable community in the northern California community of Natomas been successful? Natomas Buzz investigates.</p>