by Jessica Casebolt | May 10, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves, Uncategorized
Marijuana and other products containing THC have grown more potent and more dangerous as legalization has made them more widely available. Although decades ago, the THC content of weed was commonly less than 1.5 percent, some products on the market today are more than...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
A group of crisis experts and federal advisers conclude in a report out today that a lack of disaster preparedness and coordination led to an unraveling of the nation’s pandemic response and that the crisis exposed a “collective national incompetence in...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a record of 2.5 million cases of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States as rates worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, including a 32 percent increase in cases of syphilis in 2021 to more than...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 24, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves, Uncategorized
Republicans listed fentanyl and opioids as the top public health threat plaguing the U.S. in a new Axios-Ipsos survey, as both parties in Congress seek to spotlight the country’s overdose crisis.The new poll, published on Thursday, found that 37 percent of Republican...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
The March of Dimes released its 2022 Report Card, showing an increase in pre-term births and racial disparities. The report found that the U.S. preterm birth rate reached 10.5% of live births in 2021, marking a 4% increase from the previous year’s rate, and the...
Recent Comments