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Addiction Treatment Eludes More Than Half of Americans in Need
About 30 percent of Americans have been addicted to opioids or have a relative who has been, researchers also reported.
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The Hard-Drug Decriminalization Disaster
How soon is too soon to call a progressive and libertarian policy obsession a public policy fiasco? In the case…
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Scenes From a City That Only Hands Out Tickets for Using Fentanyl
For the past two and a half years, Oregon has been trying an unusual experiment to stem soaring rates of…
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F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Shot to Protect Infants
The News A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended approval of a monoclonal antibody shot aimed at preventing a…
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Texas Legislature Bans Transgender Medical Care for Children
The News Over the opposition of Democrats and the loud protests at the Capitol this month, the Texas Legislature voted…
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How Do You Get People Into Addiction Treatment if They Don’t Want It?
Fifteen years ago, I was the father of a child who was living on the street, addicted to meth, opioids…
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A Fraught New Frontier in Telehealth: Ketamine
With loosened rules around remote prescriptions, a psychedelic-like drug has become a popular treatment for mental health conditions. But a boom in…
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A Dilemma for Governments: How to Pay for Million-Dollar Therapies
Suhellen Oliveira Da Silva was six months pregnant when she learned that the child she was carrying had the same…
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Global Push to Treat H.I.V. Leaves Children Behind
The stories the mothers tell when they gather at the Awendo Health Centre in western Kenya are a catalog of…
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For the Uninsured, Covid Care Has Entered a New Stage of Crisis
As federal funding for the pandemic response dries up, Americans without health insurance risk being left footing the bill for…