Photo: Joey Fant, a peer support specialist at Hushabye Nursery, sits for a portrait on Nov. 8, 2022, in front of a wall of photos of babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome that have been helped by Hushabye Nursery. (Photo by Laura Bargfeld/Cronkite News) The 12-room nursery is surprisingly quiet. Rather than beeping monitors, there are
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show deaths involving opioids surged 37 percent between 2019 and 2020. An estimated 69,710 Americans lost their lives due to opioid overdoses last year, bolstering claims the COVID-19 lockdowns cost more than money. They cost lives. “The nation’s COVID pandemic made the nation’s drug overdose epidemic worse,” The
She screamed and cried, banged on the dashboard, begging her husband to drive faster, faster, faster toward her brother lying face-down on his bedroom floor. Craig Elazer had struggled all his life with anxiety so bad his whole body would shake. But because he was black, he was seen as unruly, she said, not as
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