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Weeks after the Inside Safe program focused on the streets around El Pueblo, the area still has about two dozen tents. Other areas face similar issues.
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Metro is set to release a congestion pricing study this summer that looks at charging people to drive key freeways and roads.
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A Times survey tallies the paydays for the heads of Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix and more. The issue has become a hot topic on picket lines during the writers’ strike.
One of the most complex phases of the reconstruction of fire-ravaged Notre Dame de Paris is underway: the rebuilding of the cathedral’s famous spire.
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'Harm Reduction' Debate
![Los Angeles, CA - May 19: Oscar Magana, 22, left, who struggles with mental problems but does not use drugs, sits in his tent as his step father, Johnny Roman, right, 58, who is addicted to meth, bipolar, manic depressive, and ADHD, puts bags of supplies for drug use in their tent encampment near Avalon Boulevard and East Florence Avenue in South Los Angeles Friday, May 19, 2023. The bags of supplies were distributed by a team from Homeless Outreach Program Integrated Care Systems [HOPICS] and includes drug pipes, overdose reversal nasal spray, fentanyl test strips, wipes and educational materials are aimed at preventing infection and disease, and saving them from the fentanyl death crisis. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/fb72d01/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3900x2600+0+168/resize/840x560!/format/webp/quality/80/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff2%2Fc8%2Fa65d8e8f48afab4d760e8df4219e%2F1298639-me-soaring-fentanyl-deaths-16-ajs.jpg)
Pipe handouts and other harm reduction can be a bridge to treatment, and cut infection and disease, including HIV. But pipes are controversial, not just in GOP circles but on Skid Row, a drug “recovery zone” that saw the worst of the crack epidemic.
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