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addiction

Young Adults Are Dying Earlier Than Expected

February 13, 2025

Packages of Wegovy

healthcare system

Insurance Coverage, Type of Employment Shape Inequities in Access to Semaglutide

January 22, 2025

Pharmacy Drugstore Checkout Cashier Counter: Pharmacist Service Diverse Group of Customers Paying with Contactless Cards, Smartphones for Medicine, Vitamins, Health Care Products. Top View Shot

narcan

Pharmacy Standing Order for Narcan Distribution Linked to Reduction in Overdose Deaths

August 29, 2024

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."

drugs

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

June 6, 2024

Senior woman holding on handrail for safety in bathroom

alcohol/substance use

Heavy Alcohol, Drug Use Linked to Increased Risk of Falls among People with HIV

February 16, 2024

Young African American woman taking a Self-swabbing home tests for COVID-19 at home with Antigen kit

covid-19

8 Latin American Governments Distributed Ivermectin Without Evidence to Treat COVID

June 16, 2023

environmental chemicals

Is There a ‘Right’ Definition of PFAS?

March 18, 2022

cannabis

Professor’s New Book Provides Public Health Framework for Cannabis Regulation

November 10, 2021

Bottle of remdesivir and a ventilator

access to care

Remdesivir Could Save More Lives Where ICUs Are Overwhelmed

July 6, 2020

A doctor fills out a questionnaire with her patient

Community Health Sciences

Screening for Drug Use Can Be Reasonable, But Is Not Evidence-Based

June 9, 2020