DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-08-13 They Call It ‘Tranq’ — And It’s Making Street Drugs Even More Dangerous Martha Bebinger Approaching a van that distributes supplies for safer drug use in Greenfield, Massachusetts, a man named Kyle noticed an alert about xylazine. “Xylazine?” he asked, sounding out the unfamiliar word. “Tell me more.” A street-outreach team from […]
2022-08-12 Social Media Posts Criticize the 988 Suicide Hotline for Calling Police. Here’s What You Need to Know. Aneri Pattani If you or someone you know is thinking of suicide, help is available. Various resources are listed at the bottom of this article. When the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline launched last month, […]
2022-08-11 EPA Action Boosts Grassroots Momentum to Reduce Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Andy Miller ROME, Ga. — The intake pumps that once drew 6 million gallons of water a day from the Oostanaula River now sit mostly dormant in this northwestern Georgia city. Local officials contend that years of contamination miles upstream sent toxic […]
2022-08-11 How long will it take to understand long Covid? Covid long-haulers experience a litany of symptoms, and researchers have proposed a variety of theories to explain them. It’s a morass to figure out, but the answers are important for the multitudes still suffering from an infection that happened to them months or even […]
2022-08-09 Locked-in Syndrome and the Misplaced Presumption of Misery by Jonathan Moens In 1993, Julio Lopes was sipping a coffee at a bar when he had a stroke. He fell into a coma, and two months later, when he regained consciousness, his body was fully paralyzed. Doctors said the young man’s future was bleak: Save […]
2022-08-08 The U.K. Advises Coming off Antidepressants Very, Very Slowly by Sarah Wild In 2015, psychiatrist Mark Horowitz tried to come off his antidepressants. He reduced his dosage by a set proportion over the course of several months, which is much longer than what the United Kingdom’s guidelines recommended. But in the process of tapering, […]
2022-08-07 Cognitive Rehab May Help Older Adults Clear Covid-Related Brain Fog Judith Graham Eight months after falling ill with covid-19, the 73-year-old woman couldn’t remember what her husband had told her a few hours before. She would forget to remove laundry from the dryer at the end of the cycle. She would turn […]
2022-08-06 When Mental Illness Leads to Dropped Charges, Patients Often Go Without Stabilizing Care Katheryn Houghton For seven years, Timothy Jay Fowler rotated between jail, forced psychiatric hospitalization, and freedom. In 2014, the Great Falls, Montana, man was charged with assaulting two detention officers while he was in jail, accused of theft. A mental […]
2022-08-05 They Lost Medicaid When Paperwork Was Sent to an Empty Field, Signaling the Mess to Come Brett Kelman BELFAST, Tenn. — Three years ago, Mason Lester, a rambunctious toddler, tumbled off his family’s porch and broke his wrist. His mother, nine months pregnant, rushed him to a nearby hospital, where she made […]
2022-08-04 Because of Texas Abortion Law, Her Wanted Pregnancy Became a Medical Nightmare Carrie Feibel, NPR News New, untested abortion bans have made doctors unsure about treating some pregnancy complications, which has led to life-threatening delays and trapped families in a limbo of grief and helplessness. Elizabeth Weller never dreamed that her hopes […]