State Moves to Close HB Detox Center Where OC Man Died

Los Alamitos Patch
The state is moving to shut down a Huntington Beach drug detox center following the death earlier this year of a San Juan Capistrano man, Patch has learned. Investigators say West Coast Detox Center was at least partly responsible for the death of Jason Redmer, who was found unresponsive in his bedroom at the treatment home April 16. By the time emergency workers arrived, it was too late. The coroner still hasn't released an autopsy, but the state Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs conducted its own investigation and concluded that certain actions – including the storage of unlocked medications and the staff’s failure to seek medical help when they discovered Redmer had purloined and ingested some of the drugs – “contributed to or caused” his death.
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