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by Shelby Fleig | May 25, 2018 | Health, Politics
WASHINGTON — A financial crisis at rural hospitals driven by inadequate government funding is hurting millions of Americans’ access to quality healthcare, experts told the Senate Committee on Finance on Thursday. Because rural communities have more senior...
![Sessions blames corrupt doctors for opioid crisis, calls for tighter borders]()
by Em Steck | May 4, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday said doctors are prescribing too many opioids, the same day that Justice Department indicted five doctors working at Pennsylvania opioid addiction treatment centers for health care fraud. The doctors were...
![House Subcommittee Hears Personal Stories of the Opioid Epidemic]()
by Shelby Fleig | Apr 19, 2018 | Featured, Health
Brian Mendell committed suicide at age 25 because he was ashamed of his opioid addiction, despite not having used drugs in more than a year, his father told a House subcommittee Thursday as he demanded that Congress pass laws to fight the epidemic. Mendell is one of...
by Cailin Crowe | Apr 13, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Cleveland, introduced legislation to combine addiction recovery programs with job training to address Ohio’s labor shortage caused by the state’s opioid epidemic. The U.S. Labor Department says an average of 11 Ohio residents...
by Ricky Zipp | Mar 23, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump appeared in New Hampshire on Monday to reaffirm the importance of solving the opioid crisis and announce new strategies for dealing with the problem. The president’s speech primarily focused on stricter law enforcement...
by David Thill | Mar 23, 2018 | Featured, Health
Dying – perhaps not unlike waking up early or going to school – is one of those things that almost no one seems to want to do but everyone has to do eventually (at least for now). Still, it’s quite a difficult topic of conversation. It was, however, a topic of...
