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May is Deck Safety Month, and the North American Decking and Railing Association, or NADRA, is busy spreading the word about the care and maintenance of those enjoyable outdoor spaces that, in recent years, have turned out to be deadly. Berkeley, Calif., was the site of a deck collapse in […]

Electricity is something society takes for granted, until it goes out because of a bad thunderstorm, an industrial accident or, in Florida, an osprey building a nest atop a power pole. Even though as a society we are enjoying the most reliable and cheapest electricity suppliers to date… All three scenarios […]

Painkillers Prescribed Haphazardly While Online Sales Soar One of the reasons the nation’s opioid crisis has spun out of control could be the fact that doctors are not trained universally in the field of pain management. So said Dr. Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in […]

Jerome Adams Calls on Communities To ‘Be Prepared’ and ‘Save A Life’ The opioid epidemic in America is so out of hand that the U.S. surgeon general’s office has issued an advisory: “Be prepared. Get naloxone. Save a life.” Naloxone, a nasal spray marketed as Narcan, immediately reverses the effects […]

Government Initiative Promises $1.1 Billion in Research Funds The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ National Institutes of Health has launched a brand-new – and much-necessary – initiative to combat the country’s opioid epidemic if a person wants to get help with the addiction. HEAL, an acronym for Helping […]

CDC Says 6 out of 1,000 Newborns Suffer from Drug Withdrawal Drug-addicted mothers passing along the egregious effects of opioid use to their children has increased on such a large scale that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has given it a name: neonatal abstinence syndrome. Neonatal abstinence syndrome, […]