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  • Study: Is the Opioid Crisis Response Overlooking Women?

    Study: Is the Opioid Crisis Response Overlooking Women?

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    CONNECTICUT – Women’s Health Research at Yale is calling on a government committee to revise its report on a coordinated response to the opioid epidemic so that it reflects the unique needs of women. In a commentary published in the peer-reviewed journal Biology of Sex Differences, WHRY Director Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., and Jill Becker, Ph.D., chair…

  • CDC Reports Rising Rates of Drug Overdose Deaths in Rural Areas

    CDC Reports Rising Rates of Drug Overdose Deaths in Rural Areas

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    Rates of drug overdose deaths are rising in nonmetropolitan (rural) areas, surpassing rates in metropolitan (urban) areas, according to a new report in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Drug overdoses are the leading cause of injury death in the United States,…