In today’s newsletter: Successive governments’ failure to implement a solution to energy efficiency has serious consequences for fuel poverty – Labour’s U-turn doesn’t help
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Icepack | Dec. 10-17
Philadelphians set many records of which we all can be proud.
Certainly, the names of “Molly Schuyler” and “Joey Chestnut” will go down in the annals of competitive chicken part dining as members of the elite Wing Bowl crew. Have the Eagles yet to have set records as to how far down a championship team can fall yet? I bet it’s close.
Near the weekend, however, we just discovered that Philadelphians felled by fatal drug overdoses rose in the first half of 2020, hitting a peak of nearly 600 victims. This rise in lethal overdoses was so dramatic that, by the end of this calendar year, according to JAMA Psychiatry – a journal published by the American Medical Association focusing on research in psychiatry, mental health and behavioral sciences – Philly will surpass its own death toll record from 2017, the worst year ever for drug overdose deaths.