With billions in play, opioid settlements turn political
By TERRY LYNAM // To those who’ve lost a loved one, it’s blood money: $55 billion in court settlements to be paid out in response to the 900,000 American lives…
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Spotting opioid overdoses before they happen, with AI
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook University computer professor with an AI algorithm that detects substance abuse through language has refocused the impressive prediction technology on opioids – with…
As U.S. life expectancy falls, mental-health focus rises
By TERRY LYNAM // With COVID-19 claiming more than 1 million U.S. lives in the past 36 months and drug overdoses killing another 107,000 Americans in 2021 alone, it’s no…
Politics, truth and the lethal lie of ‘crack pipes for all’
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // Was the federal government really planning to give away $30 million worth of taxpayer-funded crack pipes? No. But that didn’t stop The Washington Free Beacon from…