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Homeless sweeps thwarting health care in California as medicine, ID lost

HEALTHBEAT

Andrew Douglass shoved his clothes and belongings into plastic trash bags as five police officers surrounded his encampment — a drab gray tent overflowing along a bustling sidewalk in the gritty Tenderloin neighborhood, where homeless people lie sprawled on public sidewalks, sometimes in drug overdoses.

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Home-like respite stay is new alternative to psychiatric hospitalization in Raleigh

NC Health News

By Taylor Knopf A new kind of mental health service is available in Wake County, and it offers a voluntary alternative to hospitalization for people experiencing mental distress. Its called a peer-run respite house; its the first of its kind in the Triangle area and only the third to open in North Carolina.