Events and poll numbers from President Trump’s first 100 days, U.S. fighter jets in Eastern Europe, and concerns about energy drinks are today’s topics.
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From Becker’s:
According to data from the CDC cited by WSJ, Americans between ages 45 and 64 accounted for almost half — 44 percent — of deaths attributed to overdoses in 2013 and 2014, and the proportion of adults age 50 and older seeking opioid addiction treatment has increased significantly over recent decades.
Although many drug overdose deaths are attributed to illicit street drugs, prescription opioids pose a growing problem, the CDC reported in December.
Years of treating grievously injured people starts to wear on a person. a trauma nurse in Minneapolis says. She explores “compassion fatigue” in a semi-autobiographical poem.
(Image credit: Chris Nickels for NPR)
Comarch’s recent research into our shopping attitudes revealed some surprising details. We conducted interviews with 3,029 people across six countries (UK, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and Poland), asking them how they felt about key aspects of the retail experience.
From CNN:
Driving under the influence of drugs was deadlier in 2015 than driving while drunk, a new report found. Still, some safety experts caution that drunken driving remains a bigger problem and say that drugged driving needs more research.
Positive drug tests were more common than the presence of alcohol among the fatally injured drivers who were tested in 2015, according to the report (PDF)released Wednesday by the Governors Highway Safety Association and the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility, a nonprofit funded by alcohol distillers.
By 85, many could use a hand, study finds
(Reuters) – Georgia officials have granted a couple’s request to issue a birth certificate giving their toddler daughter the surname “Allah” after earlier refusing to do so because neither parent has that name, civil liberties advocates said on Thursday.
From WPXI:
Channel 11 News has learned that “Narcan parties” are becoming a trend in Pennsylvania.
According to investigators, addicts and dealers are taking advantage of the heroin-reversal drug by having parties where they sell heroin and Narcan as a package deal.
“You can party and use the opioids to whatever degree you want, and with the intent that you can be saved by the use of the Narcan,” Chief Jack Soberick of the Landsford, Pennsylania police said.
LONDON (Reuters) – A 3-foot-long giant rabbit died at a United Airlines pet holding facility in Chicago following a flight from London, in another embarrassment for the airline as it struggles with a global backlash this month over a passenger dragged from his seat.