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Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens as U.S. President Donald Trump addressses the daily coronavirus response briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner?

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Understanding medical uncertainty in the hydroxychloroquine debate

Smitha Khorana and Kellie Owens

Thursday, July 23, 2020

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Assessing and improving the government’s response to the veterans’ opioid crisis

John Hudak

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Lisa Collinsworth (R) holds her baby son Luke during a visit with him at Lily's Place, a treatment center for opioid-dependent newborns in Huntington, West Virginia, October 19, 2015. Picture taken October 19, 2015. To match Special Report BABY-OPIOIDS/ REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

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All in the family: A comprehensive approach to maternal and child health in the opioid crisis

N. Jia Ahmad, Joshua M. Sharfstein, and Paul H. Wise

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Hospital staff push a gurney through a hospital corridor

Up Front

A new tool for tracking vulnerability and premature mortality in America

Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

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Gail Dufault, the Transitional Healthcare Coordinator at the Barnstable County House of Corrections, prepares a dose of Vivitrol at the prison in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts September 2, 2014. Barnstable is believed to be the first jail in the country to launch an intensive voluntary recovery program for opiate-addicted inmates with the use of Vivitrol, an injectable non-narcotic drug that blocks receptors in the brain and bars addicts from getting high off heroin and other opioids for about 25 days, at a cost of about $1,000 a shot. Picture taken September 2, 2014. To match Feature USA-HEROIN/PRISONS/ REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY CRIME LAW DRUGS HEALTH)

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State approaches to tackling the opioid crisis through the health care system

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula and Bradley D. Stein

Monday, June 22, 2020

April 24, 2017; New City, NY, USA; Michael Murphy, chief of operations for the Rockland Paramedic Services, demonstrates how to administer narcan, an opioid antagonist, April 24, 2017 in New City. Mandatory Credit: Tania Savayan/The Journal News via USA TODAY NETWORK

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Reducing barriers and getting creative: 10 federal options to increase treatment access for opioid use disorder and reduce fatal overdoses

Beau Kilmer

Monday, June 22, 2020

A 41-year-old man found unconscious after overdosing on opioids in the driver's seat of a car, with the engine running and the transmission in drive, puts his hands over his head in the back of a Cataldo Ambulance at a gas station in the Boston suburb of Malden, Massachusetts, December 2, 2017. A used syringe was found in the car with the victim, who was revived with 10mg of naloxone. REUTERS/Brian Snyder SEARCH "SNYDER OPIOIDS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC13F461C890

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The role of despair in the opioid crisis: Lessons from the science of well-being

Carol Graham

Monday, June 22, 2020

A seized counterfeit hydrocodone tablets in the investigation of a rash of fentanyl overdoses in northern California is shown in this Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) photo released on April 4, 2016. At least 42 drug overdoses in the past two weeks have been reported in northern California, 10 of them fatal, in what authorities on Monday called the biggest cluster of poisonings linked to the powerful synthetic narcotic fentanyl ever to hit the U.S. West Coast. REUTERS/Drug Enforcement Administration/Handout via Reuters FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

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Preventing opioid misuse and addiction: New thinking and the latest evidence

Jonathan P. Caulkins and Keith Humphreys

Monday, June 22, 2020

Prescription medication laid out on a counting tray prior to distribution

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Overview: The opioid crisis in America

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Carol Graham, Keith Humphreys, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Bryce Pardo, Peter Reuter, Bradley D. Stein, and Paul H. Wise

Monday, June 22, 2020

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Some of the more than two dozen specimen collection volunteers line up to begin taking hundreds of free COVID-19 tests at a pop-up site at the House of Hope on Monday, May 4, in Decatur, Ga. Pastors, local physicians, health ministers, and other community leaders united to encourage area residents to get tested. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)

Up Front

Reopening America: The value of testing and modeling

Ross A. Hammond

Thursday, July 2, 2020

A person drives a motorcycle by shipping containers at a port in Keelung, Taiwan, June 10, 2020. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Order from Chaos

Taiwan faces a changed economic outlook in Asia following COVID-19

Liu Shih-chung

Monday, June 29, 2020

Jobseekers stand in line to attend the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. career fair held by the New York State department of Labor in New York April 12, 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD PACKAGE Ð SEARCH ÒBUSINESS WEEK AHEAD 3 OCTÓ FOR ALL IMAGES

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Reopening America: How division and vulnerability hamper our response

Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto

Thursday, June 25, 2020

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