Opioids and Public Health: The Prescription Opioid Ecosystem and Need for Improved Management.

While U.S. opioid prescribing has decreased 38% in the past decade, opioid deaths have increased 300%.

Ethical Imperatives to Overcome Stigma Against People With Substance Use Disorders.

Responding to the public health crisis in the United States resulting from untreated opioid use disorder (OUD) requires expanding delivery of effective treatments, including medications, and eliminating stigma against people with OUD and people seeking OUD treatment. Stigma discourages people with substance use disorders from seeking care and compromises the care they receive when they do seek it. Stigma against both medication treatments for OUD and harm-reduction approaches like syringe services programs has created additional barriers to these strategies' acceptance and use.

Consumption of polyphenol plants may slow aging and associated diseases.

Slowing aging is a widely shared goal. Plant-derived polyphenols, which are found in commonly consumed food plants such as tea, cocoa, blueberry and grape, have been proposed to have many health benefits, including slowing aging. In-vivo studies have demonstrated the lifespan-extending ability of six polyphenol-containing plants.