Medetomidine: The New Veterinary Sedative Ravaging Philadelphia
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Opioid Orphans: Grandparents Struggle to Raise Children Left Behind
From 2011 to 2021, more than 300,000 children lost a parent to fatal drug overdoses. Despite billions set aside in opioid settlement funds, grandparents who have stepped up to raise those children get very little support.
Inside Baltimore’s Worst-in-the-Nation Overdose Crisis
Investigative reporters walk readers through what they found after a year of digging. Troubled 988 centers can look to Missouri for guidance. And more.
Hidden Deaths in San Francisco: Overdoses Among Mayan Immigrants Highlight Urgent Need for Culturally Competent Services
For generations, indigenous Mayans from Mexico's Yucatan peninsula have been immigrating to San Francisco. Although there has never been an official count, estimates suggest that as many as 70,000 live in the area. Since many speak indigenous Mayan languages, not Spanish, they may be unaware of services or the dangers of fentanyl.
How Can Endless Trauma Even Be Measured?
Better tools are needed to describe the never-ending trauma experienced by Gazans that Western measures label simply PTSD, a Palestinian-American professor says.
A Different Kind of Grief: Fighting the Stigma of Overdose Deaths
In Philadelphia, grieving parents, grandparents, partners and children can find support through Philly HEALs as they battle stigma to mourn loved ones lost to overdose.
Soda bad for mental health, study finds
Drinking more soda is linked to more depression. What makes for a good mental health break – if you’re not Simone Biles? And the lasting effects of parental favoritism.
Kids who bully themselves online
Kids who post mean comments about themselves online are more likely to attempt suicide. A homeless woman in LA gets comfort and cheer from her emotional support duck. And more.
Sam Quinones on How Fentanyl and Meth Hijacked Our Country
Sam Quinones offers a powerful journalistic account of how fentanyl and P2P meth came to ravage our country and users' psyches – and how people addicted can recover.
Selling fentanyl by Snapchat
Drug dealers are using social media channels to market fentanyl-laced knockoff pills. A bipartisan effort to improve mental health services. The growing push to write prescriptions for people to get out in nature.
Opioid Orphans: Grandparents Struggle to Raise Children Left Behind
From 2011 to 2021, more than 300,000 children lost a parent to fatal drug overdoses. Despite billions set aside in opioid settlement funds, grandparents who have stepped up to raise those children get very little support.
Inside Baltimore’s Worst-in-the-Nation Overdose Crisis
Investigative reporters walk readers through what they found after a year of digging. Troubled 988 centers can look to Missouri for guidance. And more.
Hidden Deaths in San Francisco: Overdoses Among Mayan Immigrants Highlight Urgent Need for Culturally Competent Services
For generations, indigenous Mayans from Mexico's Yucatan peninsula have been immigrating to San Francisco. Although there has never been an official count, estimates suggest that as many as 70,000 live in the area. Since many speak indigenous Mayan languages, not Spanish, they may be unaware of services or the dangers of fentanyl.
How Can Endless Trauma Even Be Measured?
Better tools are needed to describe the never-ending trauma experienced by Gazans that Western measures label simply PTSD, a Palestinian-American professor says.
A Different Kind of Grief: Fighting the Stigma of Overdose Deaths
In Philadelphia, grieving parents, grandparents, partners and children can find support through Philly HEALs as they battle stigma to mourn loved ones lost to overdose.
Soda bad for mental health, study finds
Drinking more soda is linked to more depression. What makes for a good mental health break – if you’re not Simone Biles? And the lasting effects of parental favoritism.
Kids who bully themselves online
Kids who post mean comments about themselves online are more likely to attempt suicide. A homeless woman in LA gets comfort and cheer from her emotional support duck. And more.
Sam Quinones on How Fentanyl and Meth Hijacked Our Country
Sam Quinones offers a powerful journalistic account of how fentanyl and P2P meth came to ravage our country and users' psyches – and how people addicted can recover.
Selling fentanyl by Snapchat
Drug dealers are using social media channels to market fentanyl-laced knockoff pills. A bipartisan effort to improve mental health services. The growing push to write prescriptions for people to get out in nature.
