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The opioid epidemic claims more 70,000 lives each year in the U.S., and lifesaving interventions are urgently needed. Although naloxone, sold as an over-the-counter nasal spray or injectable, saves lives by quickly restoring normal breathing during an overdose, administrating the medication requires a knowledgeable bystander – limiting its lifesaving potential.
For women, commuting in Indian cities usually means enduring more than just the usual inconveniences of public transit. During a recent survey covering several cities across India, as many as 56% of women said they regularly face sexual harassment on public transport. Autorickshaw drivers are aggressive; male co-passengers on buses and subways grope women commuters; taxi drivers masturbate while ferrying customers; waiting at train and bus stations can leave women vulnerable to abuse. Newspaper reports are rife with incidents of violence against women on the move.
East Atlanta Village, a historically Black neighborhood in Atlanta with about 3,000 residents, is trying something different. In the fall of 2023, with support from the Atlanta City Council, the mayor’s office and Intown Cares, a local nonprofit that works to alleviate homelessness and hunger, the neighborhood hired a full-time social worker to support people experiencing homelessness.
SB 1931 repealed state laws “relating to the care of indigent persons by the county and county commissioners,” which had been in effect since 1910. It threw the future of social services departments of the state’s largest counties into question.
Chronic mold has become an epidemic as severe as lead paint, but neither cities nor landlords are taking responsibility.
New research from the School of Social Work and Social Policy has found that 98% of abused disabled women feel that having a disability has major impacts on seeking help and coping with intimate partner abuse…. Dr. Susan Flynn… said: “The findings of this unique research report tell us that disability has big impacts on help seeking and coping. The impacts of intimate partner abuse on disabled women in our study were extremely serious.
