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A new study suggests that ketamine prescribers aren’t paying enough attention to this risk and should do more to make sure that patients receiving ketamine aren’t pregnant and are aware of the need to use contraception while undergoing a course of treatment over multiple months.
The wealthy have all sorts of tools at their disposal to protect and grow their wealth at the expense of the rest of us, including the tax system. A few months ago, Canada’s Liberal government announced a modest change that would try to rebalance the scales a bit, raising the country’s capital gains inclusion rate from 50 percent to 67 percent. Predictably, the rich went nuts and warned it would tear the country apart.
In her new book, Disabled Ecologies, Sunaura Taylor finds both overlap and tension between disability studies and environmental justice. She grew up with the understanding that her own disability came from contaminated groundwater on the south side of Tucson, where her family had moved when her mother was pregnant with her. Military contractors—particularly Hughes Aircraft, which later merged with Raytheon, now called RTX—had dumped toxic waste into unlined lagoons; the area was eventually designated as a Superfund site. Above: Tucson International Airport Area Superfund Site, 1985