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Health These Counties Have the Most Opioid Prescriptions in the U.S.Opioid prescriptions in the United States vary widely from county to county, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC’s Vital Signs report,

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Health Health Care Bill Could Boot People With Addiction Out of Treatment The health care bill released by Senate Republicans on Thursday is stoking outrage among mental health and addiction groups for its proposed steep cuts to Medicaid, the government’s largest

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Health Hepatitis C Is Spiking Among Young People Cases of hepatitis C in the United States have nearly tripled within a five-year period, reaching a new 15-year high of around 34,000 new hepatitis C infections in 2015, federal health officials

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Health Heroin Use Is Spiking Among White Americans The U.S. is in the throes of an opioid epidemic, with 91 people dying every day from an overdose on opioids like prescription painkillers or heroin. A new study reports that the largest spikes have been among white Americans

Health Jeff Sessions Says Marijuana Is Only 'Slightly Less Awful' Than Heroin. Science Says He's Wrong Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in prepared remarks this week that he believes marijuana is "only slightly less awful," than heroin. Scientists who study marijuana disagree. "The statement flies in the face of the science," one expert said

U.S.President Trump Vowed to Solve the Opioid Crisis. He Needs to Fix This Problem First During a freewheeling recent press conference, President Trump declared that America was “drug-infested” country. “Drugs,” Trump said, “are becoming cheaper than

Health How Doctors Are Fueling the Opioid Epidemic In news profiles of the victims of the opioid epidemic, the narrative is familiar: a person gets a legal prescription for an opioid from their doctor after throwing out their back, then accidentally

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Health These Are the 10 Most Deadly Drugs From 2010 to 2014, the number of people dying from drug overdoses in the U.S. increased by 23%, according to data from the National Vital Statistics System, which tracks cause of death from death certificates. Here are the top causes

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