How one addiction clinic in Baltimore has found success combining addiction care with support for the many other health problems older Americans often face.
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Tradeoffs Adds Veteran Health Journalist Julie Wernau to Reporting Team
Tradeoffs has added veteran journalist Julie Wernau as its newest reporter and producer.
Posted inMental Health
Why Are People With Mental Illness Starving to Death in Jail?
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sarah Stillman explains why so many people with mental illness are starving to death in U.S. jails, who is profiting, and what can be done to prevent it.
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One Scientist’s Mission to Change How We Prevent Overdoses
A leading addiction expert explains how he’s driven by the memory of a friend who died, and why he believes giving data on the drug supply to people on the street is more important than using it to inform national drug policy.
Posted inCost of Care
Helping Some of America’s Costliest Patients Could Get A Lot Harder
Some people’s lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly flare into $10,000 hospital visits. Health care experts have spent years trying to help this small but costly group of patients. What have they learned?
Posted inMental Health
How Durham, North Carolina, Got Police Onboard with Unarmed Crisis Response
One of the most respected alternative response programs in the country, Durham sends unarmed mental health workers to 911 calls involving mental illness and addiction.
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The Best Way to Fight Meth Addiction? Gift Cards
For decades, the most effective treatment for methamphetamine and cocaine addiction has been mostly locked away in small research studies. California is trying to change that.
Posted inHealth Equity
Presenting: Lost Patients: Churn
In this episode of Lost Patients from KUOW and the Seattle Times, a mother who watches her son spiral from one psychiatric crisis to the next.
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The Fifth Branch: The Last Line of Care
We explore how Durham grapples with connecting people to long-term care and support, and where the city draws the line between crisis response and social services.
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How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?
Health care leaders share what they’ve learned from two decades of trying to keep this group of costly, complicated patients out of the hospital.