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A harrowing new federal survey is shedding more light on just how bad the substance abuse crisis has grown in the United States.According tonew datafrom the Department of Health and Human Services, nearly 49 million Americans aged 12 or older reported having a substance use disorder in 2022. That number included some 29.5 million peop
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ATLANTA, Ga. 鈥?The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC has declared racism a serious public health threat. Dr. Rochelle Walensky made the declaration on Thursday and laid out what the agency is doing to address racism as a fundamental driver of racial and ethnic inequalities in the U.S.The d
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