Canada has one of the highest rates of inflammatory bowel disease in the world, and that number is likely to dramatically increase in the next decade, especially among children.
The San Francisco Chronicle just published a lengthy multimedia report about the most devastating public-health crisis currently afflicting the city. And no, it's not COVID-19. It's the rash of super-potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl that.
Fentanyl is devastating San Francisco, and many of the city’s dead have been found within blocks of each other in the Tenderloin and South of Market. The Chronicle followed people locked in its grip as they try to survive the sprawling opioid epidemic on their own.