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A photo of Makayla Cox, who died of a fentanyl overdose at age 16, is displayed among other portraits on "The Faces of Fentanyl" wall, which displays photos of Americans who died from a fentanyl overdose, at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022. - America's opioid crisis has reached catastrophic proportions, with over 80,000 people dying of opioid overdoses last year, most of them due to illicit synthetics such as fentanyl -- more than seven times the number a decade ago. "This is the most dangerous epidemic that weve seen," said Ray Donovan, chief of operations at the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). "Fentanyl is not like any other illicit narcotic, its that deadly instantaneously."

death

One-third of US Adults Know Someone Who Has Died from Drug Overdose

June 6, 2024

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COVID-19

What We Know—and Don’t Know—About H5N1 Bird Flu

April 26, 2024

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Research

Child Tax Credits Provided Significant Relief to Families Experiencing Economic Shocks during COVID

February 16, 2024

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Research

New Analysis Reveals Many Excess Deaths Attributed to Natural Causes Are Actually Uncounted COVID-19 Deaths

February 6, 2024

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Health Law, Policy & Management

Addressing College Mental Health ‘Cannot Fall Solely to the Campus Health System’

January 26, 2024

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LGBTQ health

Health Insurance Coverage, Access to Care Continued to Decline for Sexual Minorities during COVID

December 22, 2023

Drone Aerial over Suburban/Urban City, College Campus

peers

‘We Can Do Better and We Need to Do Better’ to Address Student Mental Health

December 13, 2023

Kimberly Bertrand, Julie Palmer, Lynn Rosenberg, and Yvette Cozier

black women’s health study

Racism and Zip Codes, and Their Link to Black Women’s Health

December 1, 2023

Closeup of a child's face with measles wounds

measles

Measles Deaths Increased 43% Worldwide in 2022

December 1, 2023

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pregnancy complications

COVID Vaccination in Female, Male Partners Does Not Increase Risk of Miscarriage

October 28, 2023