Marc Brackett, director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence argues that we're facing an overreaction epidemic.
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Despite improvements in the rates of sexually transmitted diseases across the country, the infection rate remains high in Georgia, especially for gonorrhea and chlamydia, according to data released ...
The Trump administration says it wants to tackle the "addiction epidemic." But it's eliminating addiction treatment resources and access to mental healthcare.
Reducing social contact is widely understood to slow disease spread, but because there is no personal health benefit gained from self-isolating, this would seem to require some concern for others. But ...
The U.S. government adopted an ambitious plan in 2019, Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE), with the goals of reducing new HIV infections by 75 percent in five years, and by 90 percent in 10 ...
The monetary cost of the opioid epidemic in Virginia has reached new heights despite a significant and steady decline in deadly drug overdoses. Opioid-related deaths make up the majority of ...
On Sept. 5, 1989, President George H.W. Bush appeared on live television to discuss what he called the nation's "gravest domestic threat." Sitting at his desk in the oval office, Bush held up a bag of ...
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