Teri Sforza

Columnist Teri Sforza writes: Nine years ago, Costa Mesa was Ground Zero of Ground Zero, the town with the most rehabs, per capita, in a county with the most rehabs…. Today, Costa Mesa has less than half as many licensed/certified…

Columnist Teri Sforza writes: California’s willful blinders on the issue of sober homes and their placement in residential communities are epic, infuriating and deadly.

This is the first installment of a four-part series. They must be observed taking their daily medicine, at least in the beginning.

Column: Allowing doctors to prescribe methadone would simplify people's lives. But a profitable industry likes the old rules.

Columnist Teri Sforza writes in Part 2 of her series: The first half of 2020 was an insane time for everyone, but the terror carried an extra-sharp edge for people who needed daily visits to get methadone in order to keep their sobriety…

Column: For now, the profitable industry has industry has won the messaging battle over rules that would let patients take methadone at home.

Columnist Teri Sforza writes in Part 3 of her series: The federal rules about the drug-fighting drug seemed to carry a message that some patients can be trusted; others, not so much.

Columnist Teri Sforza writes in Part 3 of her series: The federal rules about the drug-fighting drug seemed to carry a message that some patients can be trusted; others, not so much.

Column: The overdose death of Sherry Lynn James, from drugs bought outside a methadone clinic, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the wrong frame of mind

Columnist Teri Sforza writes in the final part of her series: Sherry Lynn James opened the mystery bag, took a single hit and collapsed. When her son found her, James wasn’t breathing.