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Inside the Elementary School Where Drug Addiction Sets the Curriculum

About half of the student body at one Ohio elementary school has witnessed drug use at home. Educators spend time every day teaching the children how to cope.

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WHO: Measles Outbreak Cases Quadrupled in Europe in 2017 | Health Care News | US News

The massive surge of more than 20,000 measles cases in 2017 comes after a record low of 5,273 cases in 2016.

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CDC: US flu outbreak worsens, likely to linger for weeks

"I wish there were better news this week, but almost everything we're looking at is bad news." 

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‘The Pills Are Everywhere’: How the Opioid Crisis Claims Its Youngest Victims

Increasingly, toddlers and young children are being found unconscious or dead after consuming an adult’s drugs.