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US plunges deep into COVID-19 crisis

The United States began dispensing its first COVID-19 vaccines today as the death toll from the pandemic passed 300,000. Health workers were first in line to receive the Pfizer vaccine, which Donald Trump hailed last week as a “medical miracle” after most experts had expressed scepticism at the President’s prediction that the shot, produced under… Read More »

Addicted: America’s Opioid Crisis

The featured 2019 BBC documentary, “Addicted: America’s Opioid Crisis,” explores the depth of the nation’s addiction to opioid painkillers and the role played by Purdue Pharma and other makers of the drug. As noted in the film, opioids kill more people than any other drug on the market, and it’s the only type of drug… Read More »