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Health officials counted more than 100,000 overdose deaths last year, a new high. People of color have been disproportionately affected by the crisis.

Despite a record number of drug overdose deaths in the US and a large body of evidence supporting the efficacy of medications to treat opioid use disorder these drugs remain vastly underutilized, new research shows.

Distrust in government and institutions is a key indicator of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy according to a recently published study by a team of Ohio University researchers.

The Coronavirus disease pandemic arouses challenges to individuals’ emotional well-being. With 1582 respondents from the Health and Retirement Survey, this study investigates the heterogeneity in older adults’ vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, aging attitudes and emotional responses. I-PANAS-SF and ATOT were used to assess the emotional experiences and aging attitudes, and 14 kinds of pandemic-related deprivations evaluated individuals' vulnerability. Latent class analysis was used to explore the vulnerability types, and weighted linear regression...

Early onset colorectal cancer rates are rising in young people, with advanced-stage cancers accounting for increasing proportions of diagnoses, SEER cancer registry data reveals.