Topic: epidemiology

The firm’s managers conclude that sales would be a whole lot better if the disorder were better publicized and more people were diagnosed with it.

It doesn’t help that many states are cutting back funds for low-cost treatment, mostly due to budget problems.

When it comes to drug epidemics, sealing the borders is a limited strategy at best.

Hard to imagine anything more disturbing to most people than finding an overdose victim on the floor of the ladies’ room at the local McDonald’s.

Instead of sleazy criminals and foreign warlords, the misuse was initially at the hands of trained physicians, with the confidence of medical authorities.

Why is it that we keep trying to treat drug addiction with still more drugs?

Even when (the epidemic is) finished, society is usually left with a continuing problem, just one that isn’t growing the way it was.

Some good news: despite continuing struggles, Kentucky and West Virginia did not experience a significant increase in fatalities versus 2013.

Chimayo and surrounding Rio Arriba County have long struggled with heroin overdose rates that exceed ten times the national average.

It makes perfect sense to do something that’s been shown to be effective at limiting one very important adverse consequence to the individual and society