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Federal officials had the power to put key figures in the opioid crisis behind bars but didn’t, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said.
Simon Haeder, assistant professor of public policy at PA State U said the outbreaks show how the addiction crisis and the diseases it fuels endanger everyone, while also revealing cracks in the nation’s patchwork, poorly funded public health system.
A study of poverty and drug addiction in the slums outside Madrid reveals the callous and destructive nature of the neoliberal city.
Opioids kill more people than car accidents or gun-related homicides. But drug treatment would no longer be required to be covered in the GOP health care bill.
Trump over performed the most in counties with the highest drug, alcohol and suicide mortality rates. Much of this relationship is accounted for by economic distress and the proportion of working-class residents. However, this relationship should not be interpreted as causal. What these analyses demonstrate is that community-level well-being played an important role in the 2016 election.
This new book details a little-known aspect of the leaders of Nazi Germany: that many of them, including Hitler himself, were drug addicts. Rachel Cooke has interviewed author Norman Ohler and gives us this portrait.
A growing body of evidence suggests that chronic pain patients substitute marijuana for prescription painkillers in states where the option is available.
To encourage others to also seek help, Chiara de Blasio shares her personal story battling depression and substance abuse.
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