West Virginia city once battered by opioid overdoses confronts 'fourth wave'
From 2006 through 2014, more than 81 million painkiller pills were shipped to this city and surrounding rural Cabell County.
Mar 19, 2024
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From 2006 through 2014, more than 81 million painkiller pills were shipped to this city and surrounding rural Cabell County.
Mar 19, 2024
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Rural America has long suffered from an epidemic of methamphetamine use, which accounts for thousands of drug overdoses and deaths every year.
Mar 16, 2024
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Responding to new research on the rising incidence of colorectal cancer among younger adults, some states are trying to boost public awareness of the deadly disease with a focus on Black and rural residents.
Mar 12, 2024
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Legislators in a handful of states are offering bills to address the rise in the misuse of xylazine, a cheap animal sedative not intended for human consumption.
Mar 7, 2024
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Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools and upended child care, the CDC says parents can start treating the virus like other respiratory illnesses.
Mar 2, 2024
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Nearly 1 in 12 newborns in the United States in 2020—or about 300,000 infants—were exposed to alcohol, opioids, marijuana or cocaine before they were born. Exposure to these substances puts these newborns at a higher ...
Feb 27, 2024
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There is geographic variation in the prevalence of long COVID in the United States, according to research published in the Feb. 15 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ...
Feb 19, 2024
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Amid an overdose crisis that claimed more than 100,000 lives last year alone, newly released data show that laws in more than one-third of states restrict access to buprenorphine, a lifesaving treatment for opioid use disorder ...
Feb 7, 2024
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More than a year after the Supreme Court found there is no fundamental right to get an abortion, 21 states have laws in effect that ban abortion well before fetal viability, generally allowing it only in the first trimester.
Jan 26, 2024
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Many states have passed new laws that place restrictions on the duration of first-time opioid prescriptions to help address the opioid epidemic.
Jan 19, 2024
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