Heidi Hedberg, DPH Director
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Personal recreational marijuana use is legal in Alaska. Get the facts for your family - learn more about the health effects of marijuana and strategies to reduce the health risks associated with marijuana use.
Did you know?
Alaska’s new health care price transparency law
AS 18.23.400 went into effect January 2019, however the State of
Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services will allow health care
providers and facilities more time to comply with the law as
regulations are still being developed. The law requires health care
providers and facilities to post the prices of their most common
procedures.
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