Minneapolis Star Tribune |
Norovirus outbreak closes Air Force child care centers
ABC News An Air Force installation in Florida has closed its child care centers due to an outbreak of norovirus. In a Facebook post , Hurlburt Field officials said its youth center and three child development centers would remain closed until Dec. 18 "in an ... Hurlburt dealing with norovirus outbreak |
Washington Post |
Mentally ill, drug-addicted homeless pose challenge for city
Washington Post EVERETT, Wash. — This is the lesson that the working-class city of Everett has learned: It takes a community to rescue the hardcore homeless. It takes teams of outreach workers — building relationships with men and women struggling with addiction or ... |
Washington Post |
Opioid crisis strains foster system as kids pried from homes
Washington Post INDIANAPOLIS — The case arrives with all the routine of a traffic citation: A baby boy, just 4 days old and exposed to heroin in his mother's womb, is shuddering through withdrawal in intensive care, his fate now here in a shabby courthouse that hosts ... Q&A: How is the US opioid crisis affecting children? Opioid crisis packing foster systems Opioid Crisis Strains Families and Foster System |
Times Colonist |
Island tops list of fatalities from illicit-drug overdoses
Times Colonist According to the B.C. Coroners Service, fentanyl was present in 83 per cent of the overdose deaths this year. Photograph By File photo. More than 1,208 people have died from illicit drug overdoses in B.C. this year, the coroners service reported Monday ... BC Coroners Service says fentanyl detected in most of the 1208 overdose deaths so far this year Fentanyl detected in most of 1208 BC overdose deaths up to October Fentanyl detected in growing number of overdose deaths in BC |
Newser |
Foster System Was Shrinking. Then the Opioid Crisis Began
Newser Shawnee Wilson holds her son, Kingston, in her apartment, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Indianapolis. Kingston was born in 2016, and it took a month for doctors to wean him off the heroin Wilson exposed him to. He is in foster care now in Indianapolis, and ... |