Heroin Bust Highlights Utah’s Opioid Problem

Heroin Bust Highlights Utah’s Opioid Problem – Utah has a drug problem, specifically with opioid abuse. Thursday, law enforcement tried to tackle the problem at the root by eliminating the source of the d…

Federal 'nudge squad' led by 20-something wunderkind gears up to change …

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'[I]nsights from the social and behavioral sciences can be used to help design public policies that work better, cost less, and help people to achieve their goals,' says her proposal, first spotted by Fox News when Shankar sought help from a university …
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Knowing your leaders

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One of the biggest problem the police department faces is drug abuse. “We get involved in a lot of it simply … They have numerous people working on the other side of the line, and now we're starting to see some help here. We're starting to see the …
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Decades Later, Drugs Didn't Hold 'Crack Babies' Back

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Now we'd like to talk about another body of research that's also challenging assumptions, very old assumptions about the effects of cocaine addiction. During the crack epidemic of the 1980s and '90s, healthcare workers feared that children born to …
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