https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251219093317.htm
Long before opioids flooded communities, something else was quietly changing—and it may have helped set the stage for today’s crisis. A new study finds...
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https://www.nber.org/papers/w28303
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings...
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https://www.scrippsnews.com/health/mental-health/report-75k-more-deaths-of-despair-because-of-covid-19
A new report predicts the U.S. could see 75,000 more deaths from suicide, drugs and alcohol as a result of COVID-19.
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https://news.osu.edu/a-decline-in-churchgoing-linked-to-more-deaths-of-despair/
A decline in religious participation among middle-aged, less educated white Americans may have played a role in the widely noted increases in “deaths of...
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