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How one group of doctors drastically decreased opioid prescriptions
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…
How a brain gets hooked on opioids
Here is the neuroscience behind how opioids overtake the human brain.
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How the opioid crisis decimated the American workforce
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…
How treating opioids with more opioids has divided the recovery community
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.
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?…
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…
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…
