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How Family Incarceration Sparks Teen Addiction

Fellow Mallika Chimpiri

One Professor’s Journey from Prison to PhD: An Interview with Dr. Noel Vest

Fellow Mallika Chimpiri

Connection as Medicine

Guest Author Lily Fotovat

Editor Monica L. Wang

The Unequal Toll of America’s Overdose Epidemic

Fellow Aidan Stotz

Why Many Say No to Addiction Treatment

Fellow Mallika Chimpiri

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01.11.2018 Graph showing alcohol deaths 1979-2014 per 100,000 people

Attention: Alcohol Deaths Still Rising

Alcohol death rates are at a 35-year high. Alcohol’s wide acceptance and stark increase in death rates requires national attention.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

12.14.2017 Child making a snow angel

Back to Nature for Better Attention Spans

Time spent outdoors can improve symptoms of attention disorders, according to a new study of children in daycare centers in Norway.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

11.15.2017 Cheryl Sbarra

Cheryl Sbarra

PHP sat down with Cheryl Sbarra, public health lawyer and director of Make Smoking History, about her fight against tobacco and what it took to sound the alarm on second hand smoke.

Fellow Qing Wai Wong

11.09.2017 Policeman with a car at a DUI checkpoint at sunset

Does Undocumented Immigration Increase Drug and Alcohol Problems?

The debate on the supposed connection has far outpaced the research in this area.

Guest Author Michael T. Light

10.24.2017 Pie chart showing barriers to access to mental health

Barriers to Mental Health Treatment

Striking data from the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll on the reasons that millions of Americans skip needed mental health care.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

10.17.2017 a graph of different colored bars

Ethnic Disparities in Adolescent Mental Health Treatment

Adolescent racial or ethnic minorities in Massachusetts experience disproportionately high levels of sadness and suicide attempts. There is also a large disparity between white youth and minority youth receiving depression treatment.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

10.04.2017 a busy street with cars and people

Injection Drug Use in Ghana

People living with addiction in the United States are increasingly visible, as are the challenges they face. In Ghana, they are still living in the shadows.

Editor Jennifer Beard

09.14.2017 a group of houses with palm trees and a body of water

Note from the Field: Using Self-Care to Restore Compassion

Compassion helps public health workers face human suffering every day, but compassion fatigue and numbness can set in if public health professionals neglect their own health and self-care.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

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