According to a new study, cannabis consumption is associated with increased risks of coronary heart disease, stroke, and heart attack [1]. It’s growing popular, but is it good for you? After decades of being banned and demonized, marijuana is making […]
If you are homeless and have nowhere to go — neither a temporary shelter bed nor a permanent home — can you be fined or, worse, jailed for sleeping on a sidewalk? Or is that cruel and unusual punishment? That’s the question that the Supreme Court wrestled with Monday when it heard oral arguments in the case of Grants Pass vs. Johnson regarding the Oregon city's ordinance allowing police to fine or jail homeless people for sleeping outside. A federal district court ruled that the law violated the...
Helen Cruz has been a resident of Grants Pass, Oregon, for roughly four decades, but for the last five of those years, she’s had no home in which to live. She’s not alone. Her small mountain town with a population of 39,189 provides no public homeless shelters. She is among up to 600 people experiencing […]
Rapper Sik-K, whose real name is Kwon Min-sik, has been identified as the 30-year-old rapper who voluntarily reported himself to the police for drug
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A growing number of insurance carriers say they won't cover the cost of weight loss medications because it is too high. The change is forcing some patients to take desperate measures. NBC News' Erin McLaughlin reports.
Researchers have found that tiny particles present in cows' milk could offer, for the first time, an effective method for the oral delivery of RNA drugs.
BATON ROUGE - An LSU study exposed high drug use on campus, and now LSU claims the university doesn't have a drug problem and researchers used faulty data.Rylye Young, one of the student researchers, is at a loss for words."I think holistically I don't know how anybody could arrive at the position that lsu doesn't have a drug problem," Young said. "We know with the death of Eli Thomas this past semester that students' lives are at risk from fentanyl."A zip code that includes much of campus and...
A longtime homeless shelter in a Sarnia church has gone drug free. River City Vineyard pastor George Esser said the decision was made after an uptick in thefts, property damage and altercations at the 69-bed shelter. “We have never seen it this chaotic,” he said in a release. Experience has shown shelter officials they can’t […]
Netflix using generative AI images in a true crime doc is extremely irresponsible and exactly what archivists are telling documentaries not to do https://t.co/tC3L8tX0qE— Emanuel Maiberg (@emanuelmaiberg) April 18, 2024 Netflix has used what appears to be AI-generated or manipulated images in a recent documentary about a 2010 murder-for-hire plot involving a woman named Jennifer Pan.According to the source, "the images that appear around the 28-minute mark of Netflix's "What Jennifer Did," have...
The program, funded by JP Morgan Chase, will connect landlords to people with housing vouchers. The organization BronxWorks is launching the initiative to bridge a gap between would-be renters and owners looking for tenants. [ more › ]