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Smiling members of the Young People in Recovery
Young People in Recovery is a national nonprofit focused on addiction recovery. Six of its Kentucky chapters have been affected by federal funding cuts, leading them to curtail community events including cleanup days, in which chapter members gather used syringes off the street, pass out the overdose reversal medication naloxone, and talk to people using drugs about the possibility of recovery. | BILLY O'BRYAN / VIA KFF

Moms in crisis, jobs lost: The human cost of Trump’s addiction funding cuts

Mental health conditions, including substance use disorders, are a leading cause of maternal mortality in the U.S.
Apr 29
JACQUELINE LEWIS LOST SON SHAUN LEWIS TO AN OVERDOSE IN OCTOBER 2022. SHE’S NOW RAISING HER 7-YEAR-OLD GRANDDAUGHTER, WHILE CARING FOR HER 95-YEAR-OLD MOTHER WHO HAS DEMENTIA, ON NOTHING MORE THAN SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS./MADDIE MCGARVEY/KHN

Schools, Sheriffs, And Syringes: State Plans Vary For Spending $26B In Opioid Settlement Funds

Funds from a national settement are creating an unprecedented opportunity to make progress against an epidemic that has ravaged America for three decades, experts say — but also strife.
Nov 22, 2022
PENNY WINGARD OF CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA, HAS SURVIVED BREAST CANCER, A BRAIN ANEURYSM, AND SURGERY ON BOTH EYES. FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS, SHE'S BEEN BATTLING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN MEDICAL DEBT./ANERI PATTANI/KHN

Medical Debt Sunk Her Credit. New Changes From Credit Reporting Agencies Won’t Help.

Earlier this year credit reporting companies touted changes to erase medical debt, but experts say the effects will be limited.
Oct 6, 2022
PHOTO BY ADAM JAIME ON UNSPLASH

Women Now Drink as Much as Men — And Are Prone to Sickness Sooner

The latest U.S. data shows that women in their teens and early 20s reported drinking and getting drunk at higher rates than their male peers -- in some cases for the first time since researchers began measuring such behavior.
Jun 9, 2021
Kaiser Health News

Corralling the Facts on Herd Immunity

Community or population immunity refers to the point at which enough people are sufficiently resistant to a disease that an infectious agent is unlikely to spread from person to person.
Sep 29, 2020
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