Michigan Doctor and Cancer Strategist Launches Go Fund Me to Help Wayne, Michigan Man with Lung Cancer From:
Wayne, MI â Ted Kaschuk of Wayne, MI, knows a little bit about bad days. Last year, he was hit with not only lung cancer, but a stroke, an accident, and a pile of bills. All in the middle of a pandemic. Today, he is not only battling for his life, but to keep his apartment and his car. Ted s story is one that s close to home for me, says Dr. Mark Roby, an integrative physician who works in Novi, MI. As a cancer survivor myself, I know all too well the challenges that come with fighting this battle. I suffered near bankruptcy just to pay the medical bills, and I never would have made it through if it weren t for the help of friends. Now, I
Doctors are seeing an increase in drug overdose deaths during the pandemic
Doctors are seeing an increase in drug overdose deaths during the pandemic By Kimberly Curth | January 28, 2021 at 4:38 PM CST - Updated January 28 at 5:51 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Shannon Prince lost her only child to an accidental overdose in 2019. Parker was only 25 and addicted to opioids.
“You don’t expect to lose your children before you go,” Prince said. ”He was a social genius. He had so many friends. He was so sweet and he and I were really, really close and I miss him so much.”
She lost him to the disease of addiction.
COVID-19 has had a ripple effect on various aspects of society, and the ongoing epidemic of substance abuse and overdoses is no different.
Recently, the American Medical Association released its âNational Roadmap on State-Level Efforts to End the Nationâs Drug Overdose Epidemicâ â a report focused on policy and planning to deal with substance abuse disorders, chronic pain issues and overdoses.
All of these already-existing problems, the report acknowledges, have been complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic, along with the illicit manufacturing and distribution of numerous substances, including fentanyl and methamphetamine.
The report lays out six specific recommendations for various agencies, such as state legislatures, departments of insurance, attorneys general, state Medicaid officials and other key policymakers, including:
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Access to legal cannabis stores was linked with fewer opioid deaths in the U.S., a new analysis suggested.
The number of marijuana dispensaries in a county was negatively related to log-transformed opioid mortality rate, adjusted for age (β -0.17, 95% CI -0.23 to -0.11), reported Balázs Kovács, PhD, of Yale University School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut, and Greta Hsu, PhD, of University of California Davis Graduate School of Management.
This means that increasing the number of storefront dispensaries from one to two was tied to a 17% reduction in death rates of all opioid types, and an increase from two to three stores was associated with a further 8.5% reduction in mortality, Kovács and Hsu noted.
What happened to Alexis? Death of man who last saw her prompts new questions
For nearly 20 years, Milwaukee police have been working the cold case disappearance of 7-year-old Alexis Patterson. Share Updated: 2:02 PM CST Jan 21, 2021 What happened to Alexis? Death of man who last saw her prompts new questions
For nearly 20 years, Milwaukee police have been working the cold case disappearance of 7-year-old Alexis Patterson. Share Updated: 2:02 PM CST Jan 21, 2021
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Show Transcript CASE NOW THINK IT MAY NEVER BE SOLVED. SOON AND VERY SOON IT’S ONE OF MILWAUKEE’S BIGGEST MYSTERIES, WHAT HAPPENED TO SEVEN-YEAR-OLD ALEXIS PATTERSON? THE COLD CASE NOW SPANNING NEARLY TWO DECADES AND STILL NO ANSWERS. ONE OF THE KEY PEOPLE DIED YESTERDAY. THAT IS THE BOTTOM LINE. RETIRED MILWAUKEE POLICE SUPERVISOR STEVE SPINGOLA IS TALKING ABOUT PATTERSON’S STEP FATHER LARON BOURGEOIS. FOUND DEAD IN HIS HOME TUESDAY FROM A POSSIBLE O