…include companies such as HCA Healthcare, a for-profit hospital system, which as of September owned and operated 182 hospitals. It would also apply to companies that make drugs, medical devices…
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…dead person at the bottom of a pool. While working on a story with a photographer, he came face-to-face with a drug dealer who pointed a gun at them and…
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…in Heat-Related Mortality by Citizenship Status: United States, 2005-2014 Ethel V. Taylor, et al. American Journal of Public Health, April 2018. Risk of death related to psychotropic drug use in…
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…control methods. Understanding the drivers of these trends is important because they have implications for policy and patient care, according to researchers. Some worry that during the post-Dobbs era, when…
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…alcohol. Alcohol manufacturers have previously expressed some willingness to finance the studies—similar to the way pharmaceutical companies finance most drug testing—but that has often led to criticism. This happened to…
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…are the 2020 presidential candidates saying they will do to lower drug prices? Why doesn’t Medicare, the biggest purchaser of drugs, directly negotiate on drug prices? What’s the deal with…
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…industry. At the same time, the falling drug trade encouraged criminal organizations to turn to crimes such as kidnappings, extortion and domestic drug dealing to boost profits. While the number…
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…disparities in health and social outcomes.” Previously, as a result of the mid-1980s crackdown on the drug trade (commonly known as the “War on Drugs”), drug arrests skyrocketed, and people…
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…published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology, “Does Incarceration-based Drug Treatment Reduce Recidivism?” looks at the available evidence on the effectiveness of incarceration-based drug treatment in reducing drug relapse and…
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…increased the frequency of search for that drug along with other, similar drugs. The effects of advertising varied by media type, with broadcast and internet having the strongest associations with…
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