Tag: Opioid crisis
Dozens of US adolescents are dying from drug overdoses every month...
Ty Schepis, Texas State University
Drug overdose deaths in the United States continue to rise.
Overdoses...
White patients are more likely than Black patients to be given...
Trevor Thompson, University of Greenwich and Sofia Stathi, University of Greenwich
White people who visit hospital emergency departments with...
Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ and the enduring devastation of the opioid crisis
William Nash, Middlebury
Barbara Kingsolver’s literary honors range from the National Book Prize of South Africa to the PEN/Faulkner...
Hip-hop professor looks to open doors with world’s first peer-reviewed rap...
A.D. Carson, University of Virginia
As a rap artist who is also a professor of hip-hop, I always make...
The opioid crisis is a big issue in New Hampshire –...
Amanda Latimore, Johns Hopkins University
America’s opioid crisis has hit New Hampshire hard, creating an epidemic of overdoses and addiction-related health issues in the early...
Shouldn’t there be a law against reckless opioid sales? Turns out,...
Nicolas Paul Terry, IUPUI
The massive scale of prescription opioid shipments as the ongoing overdose epidemic unfolded has started to come into focus.
Drug companies shipped...
What Oklahoma’s opioid settlement means for other states, cities and counties...
Andrew Pollis, Case Western Reserve University
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter recently announced that the state had reached a US$270 million settlement with Purdue Pharma,...
Opioid crisis shows partnering with industry can be bad for public...
Jonathan H. Marks, Pennsylvania State University
“Show me the bodies!” someone demanded at the end of my lecture a few years ago.
As a scholar of...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
