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Empathy, community are weapons against 'deaths of despair' | Opinion
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEditor's note: This commentary explores suicide. If you are at risk, please stop here and contact...
U.S. women now live 6 years longer than men—and a lack of male-targeted mental health care might be...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 5 months agoThe gap in life expectancy between U.S. women and men widened to nearly six years in 2021, reaching...
The Shady Statistics Behind the War on Painkillers
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 7 months agoLex Villena About twenty-three years ago, public health officials began to notice increases in what would later be called "deaths of despair," referring...
Drug-related deaths in England and Wales rise to record high
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoDrug-related deaths in England and Wales have reached a record high, driven primarily by opiates,...
L.A.'s best-kept secret: Where you can legally scatter someone's ashes
LA Times via Yahoo News· 11 months agoMany people wish to have their ashes scattered after death. (Ross May / Los Angeles Times)...
U.S. reaches 1 million COVID deaths — and the virus isn't done with us
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMegan Flynn, right, is comforted during the August 2020 funeral of her domestic partner, LAPD...
What You Get Out of College Is Who You Put Into It
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 months ago(Picture via Getty Images) Americans who drive Volvos live far longer than those who drive most other cars. Who knew that driving a vehicle that looks...
National Suicide Prevention Month
WJAX via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSeptember is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide is now the leading...
NYC jail deaths at highest rate since 2000; hundreds have died at Rikers and other lockups over 2...
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEven as the population of New York City jails declined over the past half decade, the death rate among detainees surged, according to fatality statistics provided to the Daily News. Death rates ...
There's a reason America has lost more to fentanyl than war. And we're not addressing it
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAmericans by now know that fentanyl is a scourge that is killing our people by the tens of thousands every year. In 2021 alone, fentanyl killed 70,000 Americans, The Economist reports. So destructive ...
