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Anchor lead: In addition to Covid-19, overdose deaths are skyrocketing, Elizabeth Tracey reports From May 2019 to May 2020, deaths due to opioid overdose were almost twice as high as the previous year, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data …
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Anchor lead: Reducing healthcare costs at end of life can result in substantial boosts elsewhere, Elizabeth Tracey reports Failure to make your own preferences known at the end of life isn’t just a personal decision, a new book called Preparing …
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Anchor lead: Now it’s more important than ever to have advance directives, Elizabeth Tracey reports Preparing for a Better End is the title of a timely new book by Dan Morehaim, an emergency medicine physician and former professor in the Johns …
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Anchor lead: New CDC data estimate many more opioid deaths than previously thought, Elizabeth Tracey reports 72,000. That’s the number of deaths related to drug overdoses in the United States in 2017, the most recent data from the Centers for …
