Meth has devastated the gay community for decades. A new treatment offers hope. Benjamin Ryan Do you want to be a 50-year-old meth addict?
For Roger, the enormity of what he had lost during his nearly two decades of off-and-on methamphetamine use and what more he had to lose hit home hard when a man he was dating asked him that question.
Roger, who was 47 at the time, had already suffered a major ischemic stroke thanks to meth, the powerfully addictive stimulant that had long since taken over his life.
So when Roger, who is from Dallas and asked that his last name not be published for fear that meth s stigma could hurt his career, heard that a study was looking for people like him to test a treatment for meth use disorder, he jumped at the chance.
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Outrage over Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s policies regarding Covid-19 patients in nursing homes and his administration’s decisions to withhold numbers detailing some of the consequences won’t soon be brushed under a rug, according to a new poll this afternoon. A Marist poll gave Cuomo his poorest results yet in a trio of survey results that have been released since criticism intensified last month.
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The next time your stomach turns at the smell of spoiled food or the sight of feces, pay attention. New research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Feb. 15, suggests that disgust could be the body’s way of helping people avoid infection giving new meaning to the phrase “trust your gut.”
The study is the first in its field to directly test whether people who experience a greater pathogen disgust sensitivity that is, people who are more sensitive to feeling disgust will become exposed to fewer pathogens in their local environments, and thus suffer fewer infections, according to Theresa E. Gildner, assistant professor of biological anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and study co-author.
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Climate Threats Could Mean Big Jumps in Insurance Costs This Year
The federal government is revising rates for flood coverage on April 1. New data suggests premiums need to increase sharply for some homes.
Creole, La., a day after Hurricane Delta hit the area in October.Credit.Emily Kask for The New York Times
Published Feb. 22, 2021Updated March 18, 2021
WASHINGTON The cost of federal flood insurance will need to increase significantly in much of the country to meet the growing risks of climate change, new data suggests, creating a political headache for the Biden administration.
The National Flood Insurance Program, which provides the vast majority of United States flood insurance policies, would have to quadruple premiums on high-risk homes inside floodplains to reflect the risks they already face, according to data issued on Monday by the First Street Foundation, a group of academics and experts that models flood risks.