radiostation:america

  • Reports Warn of Growing Senior Opioid Crisis
    https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20180919/reports-warn-of-growing-senior-opioid-crisis

    WEDNESDAY, Sept. 19, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Against the backdrop of an unrelenting opioid crisis, two new government reports warn that America’s seniors are succumbing to the pitfalls of prescription painkillers.

    Issued by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the reports reveal that millions of older Americans are now filling prescriptions for many different opioid medications at the same time, while hundreds of thousands are winding up in the hospital with opioid-related complications.

    “These reports underscore the growing and under-recognized concerns with opioid use disorder in older populations, including those who suffer from chronic pain and are at risk for adverse events from opioids,” said Dr. Arlene Bierman. She is the director of AHRQ’s Center for Evidence and Practice.

    At the same time, AHRQ’s second report found that nearly 20 percent of seniors filled at least one opioid prescription between 2015 and 2016, equal to about 10 million seniors. And more than 7 percent — or about 4 million seniors — filled prescriptions for four or more opioids, which was characterized as “frequent” use.

    The challenge, said Bierman, “is safe-prescribing for those who need opioids for pain, while avoiding overuse or misuse.”

    Clinicians, she advised, could address that concern “by using non-opioid pain medications and non-pharmacologic treatments before considering the use of opioids.” And she suggested that if and when opioids are needed, “the lowest possible dose should be used.”

    #Opioides

  • Are #Nigerians the New Asians ?
    http://africasacountry.com/are-nigerians-the-new-asians

    Recently, the Nigerian newspaper Punch opened an article as follows: “Nigerians … have been rated among certain races who are bound to succeed over others in America, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.” Anyone who reads book reviews or listens to middlebrow talk radio in America is likely to know that this refers to the new offering from Amy “Tiger Mom” Chua and her husband, Jed Rubenfeld.

    #BOOKS #HISTORY #MEDIA #Adolph_Reed_Jnr #Amy_Chua #Chinese #Cubans #Jeff_Rubenfeld #model_minority #Triple_Package #Yale

  • The social crisis in America - World Socialist Web Site
    http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/04/pers-m04.html

    The social crisis in America
    4 May 2013

    US stock markets surged Friday to new record highs as Wall Street traders seized on a tepid jobs report to engage in a fresh orgy of speculation.

    The official line promoted by the Obama administration is that the United States is in the midst of an accelerating economic recovery. For the corporate and financial elite that runs America, and the section of the upper-middle class that hangs on its coattails, a soaring stock market is indeed what defines economic health. For the vast majority of the population, however, life five years after the Wall Street crash of 2008 is dominated by the daily struggle to make ends meet.

    #états-unis #pauvreté #crise

  • United States celebrates historic day for gay rights | Gay Star News
    http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/united-states-celebrates-historic-day-gay-rights071112

    United States celebrates historic day for gay rights
    With four marriage equality battles won and the first lesbian to be elected in the US Senate, gay rights advocates are celebrating in America
    07 November 2012 | By Joe Morgan
    President Barack Obama, the first sitting US president to back marriage equality, has been given a second term.

    The United States can now celebrate a historic day for gay rights after the first sitting president in history to back marriage equality has been given a second term.

    President Barack Obama won the election after gaining the 270 electoral votes needed.

    With only Florida’s 29 electoral votes still undecided, Obama won 303 votes to Mitt Romney’s 206.

    In three states, Maine, Maryland and Washington, gay people are now able to get married and enjoy the same legal benefits as their heterosexual peers.

    In Minnesota, people voted to stop gay marriage from being banned outright in the state.

    The Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin, whose organization gave $5 million to the four marriage equality battles, said these laws give thousands of loving couples the ‘opportunity to make lifelong commitments through marriage.’

    He said: ‘This is a milestone night for the simple truth that when Americans are presented with the real lives of their friends and neighbors, they have no choice but to vote for equality.’

    Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin also made history by becoming the first openly gay person to be elected to the US Senate.

    ’I am honored and humbled and grateful, and I am ready to get to work - ready to stand with Barack Obama, and ready to fight for Wisconsin’s middle class,’ Baldwin told supporters at her victory party.’

    Openly gay candidate Mark Pocan took Baldwin’s seat in the House of Representatives, meaning it is the first time a gay member of congress is succeeded by another gay member.

    In early returns, openly gay Democratic candidate Mark Takano is leading against his Republican challenger in a new California district. If he wins, he would be the first gay Asian-American in Congress.

    If they were elected, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running-mate Paul Ryan said they would introduce a federal state-wide ban on same-sex marriage.

    Anti-gay and anti-abortion Republican candidate Todd Akin, renowned for saying women cannot get pregnant from ‘legitimate rape’, lost his fight to become a senator of Missouri.

    Writing on Facebook before the presidential result was officially announced, he said: ‘Fox News Channel projects Barack Hussein Obama has won reelection. May God have mercy on our nation.’

    Extremist Christian conservative pundit Bryan Fischer predicted on Twitter that anti-gay Mike Pence of Indiana would win the 2016 election. He added: ‘Today was Pearl Harbor. Tomorrow we begin planning for Normandy.’

    In his victory speech, President Barack Obama said gays should be able to achieve the American dream.

    He said: ‘It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love.

    ‘It doesn’t matter whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or pool, abled, disabled, gay or straight.

    ‘You can make it here in America if you’re willing to try.’