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The article reports that pandemic sparking a rash of canceled appointments, some doctors are going old-school to continue seeing young patients. It mentions that Goldstein is part of a contingent of pediatricians across the United States and one of two providers at his practice who have turned to making house calls amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The article focuses on the problems to be faced by prisoners who have been released amid COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Topics include the housing services her organization provides are still operating as an essential business, the legal and leadership development aid it offers former inmates is being provided through telecommunication, and the coronavirus pandemic will have lasting impacts on criminal justice reform being anyone's guess.

The article reports that the drug education's new curriculum encourages high schoolers to abstain from substance use but acknowledges not all of them will. It mentions that National Health Education Standards and Common Core learning standards, the roughly 45-minute lessons range from covering how drugs work and various harm-reduction strategies to the effects, risks and benefits of different types of substances, including alcohol , marijuana, e-cigarettes and prescription and other opioids.

The article discusses that as potent forms of the drug flood U.S. communities, help for users is limited. Topics include with cheaper and more potent forms from Mexico flooding U.S. communities in recent years as well as instances of people using methamphetamine alongside opioids its growing presence highlights the challenges of providing adequate treatment for those who want to enter recovery, and there are no U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved medications to treat methamphetamine.

The article discusses about the Project Prevention by a North Carolina-based nonprofit offers people with addictions money in exchange for their opting to use long-term birth control, like an intrauterine device or a contraceptive implant and sterilization also qualify patients for a payout. Project Prevention's work raised ethical alarms, relating it as exploitation, coercion and even eugenics-style population control.

The article examines the significant increase in methamphetamine from Mexico in the U.S. as of March 15, 2019. The methamphetamine problem has reportedly been growing amid efforts to address the opioid epidemic that plagues the country. Topics include the significant decline in methamphetamine laboratory seizures, the 2019 Drug Threat Assessment report for the Oregon-Idaho High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act, and the lack of funds to combat meth.

The article reports that the alcohol being increasingly a women's health issue. Topics include the U.S. researchers and medical specialists have observed a rise in younger adults and women suffering from condition such as alcoholic cirrhosis and alcohol -associated liver disease that requires a liver transplant – trends ultimately reelected in increasing rates of alcohol -related deaths.

The article focuses on the readiness of U.S. states to respond to infectious disease outbreaks based on the annual Trust for America's Health report released in 2020. Topics discussed include the call of the report for states and localities to prepare their public health safeguards in light of the climate condition and preventable diseases outbreaks, move by states to plan collaboratively for a public health emergency, and the need for states to support climate-adaptation efforts.

The article reports on the large-scale tree planting initiative started by the Texas Trees Foundation and the Federal Trust for Public Land, in partnership with the U.S. Nature Conservancy, in Dallas, Texas in 2016. Topics discussed include the goal of the community-focused initiative is to reduce the heat and respiratory issues face by the region, the association between the increase in heat and the built environment, and the increase in asthma cases.

The article offers information on the Bringing Our Loved Ones Home Task Force launched by the U.S. Board of Supervisors led by the U.S. Department of Workforce Development,Aging and Community Services. It mentions that Los Angeles County, with 10.2 million residents, is the populous county in California. It mentions that adults who have physical or mental conditions that restrict the ability to do normal activities.

The article focuses on the concerns related to the contamination of water in Kewaunee County. It mentions that the Kewaunee County community is focused on removing the contamination, with consistent well testing to develop changes in farmers' management practices. According to Lee Luft , supervisor and secretary of the county's Land and Water Conservation Committee, the amount of E. coli or bacterial well contamination decreased.

The article focuses on rancher Jim Strickland, who seek restrictions on their land to preserve wildlife and livestock legacies in Florida. It refers to the population growth and economic development in Florida. Strickland's greenland preservation efforts are tied to a profitable business that protect parcels of land with clean water, wildlife and a ranchers way of life.

The article reports on New Jersey's law that allows mentally capable, terminally ill adults ages 18 and older with six months or less to live to be able to request a doctor's prescription for a medication that , if taken will result in their death. Deborah Pasik, an at ending physician in Morristown, New Jersey, supports the law and states that medication is to end suffering.

IN NOVEMBER 2017, A Southern town that was home to the nation's first 911 call was hit with hard news: Its local hospital would close its doors by year's end. The success of the effort to salvage hospital access in a slice of rural Alabama comes as dozens of hospitals in similar areas across the country have struggled to stay open in the face of financial distress and recruitment challenges. "There's so many other health care services that are anchored into these rural hospitals. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses how U.S. president Donald Trump's administration's Opioids: The Crisis Next Door campaign needs more diverse viewpoints to have a larger impact. Topics include the Opioids: The Crisis Next Door campaign which is a White House-led digital initiative that urges people from across the U.S. to share their experiences with opioid addiction and recovery.

The article reports that life expectancy in US falls as drug overdoses and suicides rise between 2016 and 2017 and continues on a declining trend seen since 2014. Topics include a report released by the National Center for Health Statistics as a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US health care system, and increase in death rates in US.

The article provides information on increased HIV diagnoses in northeast Massachusetts and risk of opioid epidemic. Topics discussed include continuity of Massachusetts healthcare providers and managing disease transmission of infectious disease; views of Alfred DeMaria, epidemiologist at the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health on the same; and homeless community.