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West Virginia City Once Battered By Opioid Overdoses Confronts ‘Fourth Wave’

From 2006 through 2014, more than 81 million painkiller pills were shipped to this city and surrounding rural Cabell County. The arrival of prescription opioids onto seemingly every block of Huntington, a city of about 46,000 people, augured the first wave of an overdose crisis. Heroin followed,…

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CDC Issues Warning On Melatonin After Alarming 420% Increase In ER Visits By Children

Melatonin, a hormone that regulates sleep-wake cycles, has gained popularity as a sleep aid for adults. However, recent reports highlight a concerning trend – a significant increase in unsupervised melatonin ingestion among children. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that nearly 11,000…

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Florida Grand Jury Finds Lockdowns, Masking And Distancing Caused More Harm Than Good

Recommendations to lock down, mask up, and social distance during the COVID-19 pandemic were not made on the best available scientific evidence and thus had nowhere near the effectiveness that their advocates either proclaimed or hoped for. Sufficient data indicate that such measures contributed little…

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