The Communities That Care Coalition began in 2000 in Western Massachusetts to reduce youth substance abuse and improve youth health. The program brought together and coordinated the efforts of various…
…well-being are becoming more frequent and more severe. These include wildfires and flooding, the opioid crisis, the increase in obesity and chronic illness, and this year a measles outbreak, serious…
…Zika to opioid misuse to diabetes to heart disease, the CDC is on the frontlines keeping Americans healthy. Cutting nearly 20 percent of the CDC’s Chronic Disease Prevention and Health…
…data systems and a robust public health workforce. “Even before COVID-19, numerous health emergencies, including infectious disease outbreaks like measles, Zika and Ebola, the opioid epidemic, weather-related events and lung…
…Virgin Islands. And theirs is the lead agency working with hospitals and doctors nationwide to guarantee that opioids are appropriately prescribed and that opioid-related deaths are accurately recorded, he said….
December 21, 2017 by Maggie Fox NBC News “The escalating growth of opioid deaths is downright frightening – and it’s getting worse,” said John Auerbach, president and CEO of Trust…
…the Trust for America’s Health and the Well Being Trust. The authors of the study say the projections could be conservative as the opioid epidemic continues to wreak havoc on…
…and suicide in 2017—more than twice as many as in 1999 – including sharp increases in synthetic opioid deaths. Policy action on these deaths of despair epidemics is imperative. Read…
…of the upturn in deaths due to drug overdose involved opioid overdose, with additional deaths due to cocaine and psychostimulants. In addition, a new and growing threat is xylazine, a…
August 21, 2017 by JEFF SCHLEGELMILCH AND DARA ALPERT LIEBERMAN The Hill From Ebola to Zika to the opioid epidemic, health departments and the healthcare system, now more than ever,…
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