

Health Oct 09

With addictions and overdoses surging over the past two decades, recent CDC guidelines urge doctors to avoid or dramatically limit the use of legal painkillers. In Southern California, a group of Kaiser Permanente doctors has been helping chronic pain patients…
By PBS NewsHour
Science Oct 09

Here is the neuroscience behind how opioids overtake the human brain.
By Nsikan Akpan, Julia Griffin
Economy Oct 05

In northeastern Ohio, employers say they see jobseekers all the time who look like "the walking dead," would-be workers struggling with opioid addiction. The problem is so great, reports economics correspondent Paul Solman, that it's had a noticeable effect on…
By PBS NewsHour
Nation Oct 05

In this Florida county, some believe medication is the only thing that can stop the opioids deaths. Others say a life on medication isn't a life at all.
By Elizabeth Flock
Oct 04

Oct 04

By Philip Moeller
A reader needs to apply for Social Security benefits right now after losing his job at full retirement age. But what if he finds a new job?…
Oct 03

How was the Las Vegas killer able to shoot so many rounds so quickly? Stephen Paddock, the 64-year-old retired accountant who went on a shooting rampage, had stockpiled in his hotel room at least 23 firearms, as well as two…
At about 10 p.m. Sunday, a rapid pop-pop-pop rang out at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, a country music festival in Las Vegas. At first the rapid-fire burst was so steady, many concertgoers mistook it for firecrackers. The noise came…
Oct 02

By PBS NewsHour
Will the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history move the needle on the debate over access to guns? Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report and Tamra Keith of NPR join Lisa Desjardins to discuss the politics of gun…
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