FILE – This Oct. 14, 2015, file photo, shows the Food & Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik,…
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The Options and Obstacles to Treating Heroin Addiction
by PBS June 8, 2016Five years ago, 6 percent of the people who entered the Staten Island YMCA’s substance abuse treatment program were addicted to heroin. Today, it’s 30 percent. “The largest percentage of people that come to us, the substance that they’re most often using is heroin,” says the program’s executive director, Jacqueline Filis. “It was a slow […]
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The opioid epidemic has been called the worst drug crisis in American history. Death rates now rival those of AIDS during the 1990s, and with overdoses from heroin and other opioids now killing more than 27,000 people a year, the crisis has led to urgent calls for action. The epidemic didn’t happen overnight. Over the course […]
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Most of the media attention in the current nationwide heroin epidemic has focused on the uptick in overdose deaths among suburban, white, middle-class users — many of whom turned to the drug after experimenting with prescription painkillers. And it’s among whites where the most dramatic effect has been seen — a rise of more than […]
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“Tsunami of Disease” Slams Brazil’s Health System
by explainingmedicine June 8, 2016IPOJUCA, Brazil – Eight out of 10 patients who walk into this industrial city’s hospital have a rash, a fever and terrible pain, says nurse Vanessa DiBrito Sales. They’ve all been bitten by the wrong mosquito, and they’re all suffering mightily for it. Like other public hospitals in Brazil, Ipojuca’s is contending with three mosquito-borne […]
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GHOUYMAN, South Sudan — The canoe was not big enough to carry them all. Peter Met Biel Luak, his wife, her mother and his 10 children needed to travel through the swamp to escape. Some had to swim or walk through chest-deep water. They had no food, no blankets, no mosquito nets. “I left nothing […]
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For months, health officials have been racing to answer a fundamental question about Brazil’s mysterious upswing in microcephaly cases: Is the birth defect being caused by the mosquito-borne Zika virus? If so, does every pregnant woman infected with Zika pass the virus to her unborn child? And does every fetus infected with Zika wind up with […]
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Over the past five years, at least 162 abortion providers have either shut down or stopped offering the procedure altogether. In at least five states, just one abortion clinic remains open. This new reality is the result of a drive in state capitals across the nation to more tightly regulate abortion. From 2011 to 2014, […]