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Cocaine use is on the rise: Research highlights troubling trends
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Amid the United States’ heavily documented opioid crisis, the nation is dealing with another, lesser known rise in substance use. In recent years, national rates of cocaine use have steadily climbed.
Medicaid expansion linked to better health outcomes for thousands
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Two new studies demonstrate a link between Medicaid expansion and positive health outcomes, adding quantitative evidence to inform the nation’s ongoing debate about health insurance coverage.
Benzodiazepines: Another prescription drug problem
Source: JournalistsResource.orgThis tip sheet, originally published in 2018, has been updated to include more recent statistics and additional information.
Rural Americans struggle with health costs, lack of high-speed internet
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About one-quarter of adults living in rural parts of the U.S. were not able to get health care when they needed it during the past few years, despite having health insurance, according to new findings from a national survey made public on Tuesday.
Jon Vernick shares 6 tips for reporting on gun policy and gun violence
Source: JournalistsResource.orgHow housing practices in the 1930s eroded black wealth
Source: JournalistsResource.orgBanks consider lots of factors when determining if a mortgage applicant is a good credit risk. Race can’t be one of them — but that wasn’t true before the Fair Housing Act became law in 1968.
Income inequality and being bullied linked in new JAMA Pediatrics study
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Growing up in a country with wide income inequality is associated with being bullied during early adolescence, according to a new paper in JAMA Pediatrics from nine researchers representing universities around the world.
How Fed rates helped fuel the investment bust that sparked the Great Recession
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As the Federal Reserve bumped interest rates more than 4 percentage points in the lead-up to the Great Recession, investors steered toward increasingly risky bets on the U.S. housing market, according to a recent working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
What Game of Thrones tells us about ourselves: A research roundup
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With more people than ever watching HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and just three episodes left in the series, we wanted to remind readers that GoT is not just a cultural phenomenon, it’s an academic one too.