There’s more to America’s opioid epidemic than death statistics—and even those can be unreliable. The map above shows just how much states may undercount their opioid death rates. The dark shades represent the biggest difference between reported opioid mortality rates in 2014 and corrected rates based on analysis from the University of Virginia.
As those numbers lag, cities and towns are on the front lines of an opioid crisis they don’t fully understand. Some are getting creative with how to gather more data on the problem: One city even has a plan to mine drug-usage data from its sewage. CityLab’s Linda Poon has the story on the experimental, data-driven quest to learn what’s really happening in the opioid crisis.
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Out & About in our Community at Taste of Aliso Niguel 2018
Out & About in Our World With Images from the Summit of the Koreas
Out & about in Our World w/this On Donald Trump in Iran in 1977 (Right Before the Revolution)
Our team pulled together some thoughts as the Tariff Wars continue and America's Status in the World continues to be of concern: Global Economy America the Unstable The US will pay a market penalty for Trump’s turmoil APRIL 13, 2025 by Rana Foroohar Global Economy Trump chaos prompts top Canadian and Danish pension funds to cool on US Rethink comes as tariffs and talk of territorial expansion stoke market instability and geopolitical tension APRIL 13, 2025 by Sun Yu and Antoine Gara in New York and Mary McDougall and Arash Massoudi in London The impact of tariffs on US GDP growth and inflation The “reciprocal” tariff policy President Trump announced this week would impose a weighted average tariff rate of 18.3% on US trade partners, around 3 percentage points higher than Goldman Sachs Research had expected. Roughly one-third of total imports would be exempt, which reduces the impact to a 12.6 percentage point increase in the effective tariff rate. Our res...
This is a launch of a new feature we have dubbed "#TrumpWatch" as the first two weeks of the Trump Adminstration takes shape. We present the following snapshot of a week in America this week after the first two weeks of the Trump Adminstration: Greetings, readers! My apologies for the dearth of posts lately. I’ve been traveling the country to do some reporting for my forthcoming book on criminal defense. Probably not the best timing, given the wholesale attack on our democracy since January 20th. I’ll be back in Nashville and on a regular schedule in about a week. The good news is, I’ve found quite a few stories and talked to some really interesting folks on this trip. I’ll be writing about some of that in the coming weeks. — Radley A Q&A with immigration attorneys on the ground So far, defense counsel for detained immigrants are seeing only subtle changes in deportations. But it's likely to get a lot worse. Radley Balko Feb 8 READ IN APP ICE agents raid a hom...
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