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)
The weekend here in the United States has been dominated by President Trump's assertions about President Obama having authorized a wiretap on him. Based on all indications, it simply cannot be done as it must be authorized by a Court. The Republicans are noting that they would be investigating this. This is also as the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, amended his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee as charges of perjury continues to be noted against The Attorney General--including assertions that he has violated a law called the False Statements Act. This is as the Republicans just announced their Obamacare replacement that is yet to address some key provisions. Beyond the Shores of the United States, there are changes going on in Europe as we speak. One very interesting group that has begun in Europe was begun by the Former Greek Finance Minister with some key provisions as part of the alternatives that is emerging toda...
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...
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