The Senate will schedule a vote to prevent Gov. Chris Christie from shifting oversight of addiction and mental-health services to the Department of Health.
Six laws kick in at the start of 2017, as well as the beginning of tax cuts approved in the bargain that increased the gas tax by almost 23 cents a gallon.
In a continuing effort to provide emotional comfort to survivors of Hurricane Sandy, the Department of Human Services’ Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services has provided $54,498 in funding to the University of Medicine and Dentistry to perform crisis counseling.
A longtime doctor and nurse practitioner at a New Jersey-run residential center for the developmentally disabled are under investigation for allegedly conducting research on residents without agency permission.