Archive for July 2024

In all, about 24,000 cancer deaths and 95,000 cases in a single year were attributable to alcohol consumption, according to the researchers’ calculations.

Painted portraits commissioned by Zarinah Lomax. Each person “is not a number. This is somebody’s child. Somebody’s son, somebody’s daughter who was working toward something,” Lomax says. “The portraits are not just portraits. They are telling us what the consequences are for what’s happening in our cities.”

As their name would imply, we tend to think of mixed emotions as a blend of different, often contrasting, emotions — but new research suggests that may not be the case.

Veterans with opioid use disorder (OUD) who do not receive treatment with buprenorphine are more than four times as likely to die by suicide or overdose than those who do take the medication, a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has found.

The Guam chapter of the National Association of Social Workers is calling on Attorney General Douglas Moylan to remove the AG’s office-installed public billboards that it believes “dehumanize, stigmatize and perpetuate racism.” Moylan earlier said his latest billboard sends a message to non-U.S. citizens that if they commit crimes, they can be deported.

It all started in the fluorescent food court at Winrock Mall in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Whitney and I were hunched over paper plates, licking school bus-yellow cheese from the center of our Hot Dogs on a Stick.

Providence Park is inspired by the Community First Village of Austin, Texas, and when complete, will include 400 tiny homes with full support services to improve both resident health and quality of life.