Today's nationwide epidemic of opiate addiction was spawned in part by doctors who, with the best of intentions, wanted to help patients in pain, and by drug companies that said they had just the remedy - long-lasting, effective painkillers with none of the addictive qualities of their ...
Perhaps the most common resolution every January is a vow to improve one's health. Whether it is better utilizing that oft-forgotten gym membership, dropping junk food or simply purchasing more locally grown produce, this is a resolution that is almost universally disregarded before ...
Consider this an idea from the Department of Unlikely Tomes: How about a volume about the secret lives of people who forget to return overdue library books? It could include a recent tale of redemption from the Brooklyn Public Library, where Barbara Roston, 72, returned a faded green copy of ...
As the Republican Party looks back at a successful 2016 in which it reclaimed the White House, kept its stronghold on Capitol Hill and dominated in statehouses across the country, many in the GOP are strangely at odds with its traditional hardline stance on foreign policy. President-elect ...
It was a difficult year for the Division for Children, Youth and Families. Already dogged with staffing shortages and fatigue issues, the agency was hammered for having a majority of its cases assessed in an untimely manner and being inconsistent even within its own policies. In the past ...
Statisticians point out we Americans are more likely to die from falls in the bathtub or being struck by lightning than because of a terrorist attack. We shouldn't worry so much about terrorism, we're told. Roughly twice as many Americans have been killed by lightning as have perished in ...