Addiction.

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  Edwin Kim

  

  Find Yourself Drinking More Now That You're Home? Here's What Experts Want You to Know

  PSFeelGood - Nhari Djan

  Even as states begin making plans to reopen parts of the economy, most Americans are still sheltering at home in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. To cope with the stress and uncertainty of this time, people are cleaning and baking and mastering new skills — but they're also …

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  Edwin Kim

  

  These Maps Show Where "Deaths Of Despair” Are Most Likely, Including Murder, Suicide, And Drugs

  BuzzFeed - Caroline Kee

  Drug use and violence are a problem in the US — but they are killing more Americans in some parts of the country than others. New maps reveal where Americans are dying at alarming rates from drugs, alcohol, suicide, and homicide. These so-called deaths of despair do not affect all places …

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  Edwin Kim

  

  See Inside the Worst Opioid Addiction Crisis in U.S. History | Time

  TIME

  Photographer James Nachtwey traveled across America to capture the devastating toll of opioid addiction

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  Edwin Kim

  

  It’s Time to Talk About the Opioid Crisis as a Women’s Health Issue

  VOGUE.COM - By Ivana Rihter

  At the beginning of the Oscar-nominated short documentary Heroin(e), centered on the town of Huntington, West Virginia, deputy fire chief Jan Rader speeds to a local pub, sirens blaring. By the time she arrives, a woman is already being wheeled out on a stretcher after overdosing in the bathroom. …

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  Edwin Kim

  

  Jump In Overdoses Shows Opioid Epidemic Has Worsened

  NPR - Rob Stein

  There's more bad news about the nation's devastating opioid epidemic. In just one year, overdoses from opioids jumped by about 30 percent, according to a report released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The overall increase in opioid overdoses seen in hospital emergency …

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  Edwin Kim

  

  

  People are dying because we misunderstand how those with addiction think

  Vox - Brendan de Kenessey

  The American opioid epidemic claimed 42,300 lives in 2016 alone. While the public policy challenge is daunting, the problem isn’t that we lack any effective treatment options. The data shows that we could save many lives by expanding medication-assisted treatments and adopting harm reduction …