Frequent Marijuana Use Raises Risk of Psychotic Disorders in Vulnerable People

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 18, 2016 The potential for marijauana to cause lasting damage to the mental health of some users, especially the young, is serious enough to warrant global public health campaigns, international drug experts say. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Study: Pollution Leads to Thousands of Premature Births Each Year

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 11, 2016 Air pollution contributes to 16,000 preterm births annually and costs the country billions of dollars in medical costs and lost productivity, the first study of the phenomenon suggests. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

All Eyes on Flint, but Drinking Water Crisis Stretches Nationwide

By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams Mar 17, 2016 A USA Today investigation finds 350 schools and day-care centers failed lead tests about 470 times from 2012 through 2015. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

AUDIO: ‘Black Lives Matter Is a Re-Humanizing Project’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 7, 2016 A cross-generational conversation with a Black Lives Matter founder and a trauma doctor, who is trying to redefine public health in terms of human wholeness, deals with the culture and society the movement is trying to create. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Welcome to the United States of Flint

By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz / TomDispatch Feb 11, 2016 The children of Flint, Mich., are hardly the only ones threatened by lead. There’s a crisis in Baltimore, Herculaneum, Mo., Sebring, Ohio, and even the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. And that’s just to begin the list. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Flint’s Crisis Is About More Than Water

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Feb 8, 2016 The thousands of Michigan children who were knowingly poisoned were victims of an American moral malaise: Our nation has bred generations of bureaucrats who are blind to values other than self-advancement and profit. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

FBI is Now Involved in the Investigation Into the Flint Water Crisis

By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams Feb 3, 2016 Federal prosecutors are reportedly "working with a multi-agency investigation team on the Flint water contamination matter." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Flint’s Water Crisis Is a Warning to Us All

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Jan 28, 2016 We assume as a basic human right the easy access to clean water, and for most Americans it flows from the tap whenever we want But as the lead contamination in Michigan shows, we're more vulnerable than we think We assume as a basic human right the easy access to clean water . Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Flint All Over Again? Lead Poisoning Scandal Strikes Ohio Town

By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams Jan 27, 2016 The state's Environmental Protection Agency has asked its federal counterpart to open a criminal investigation into what occurred in Sebring. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Deogratias ‘Deo’ Niyizonkiza

BLANK Feb 8, 2015 "We are not people who are created by God to kill each other," says the doctor, whose remarkable journey from Burundi to the United States and back again offers hope that social divisions can be overcome. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Study: IMF Austerity Helped Ebola Kill Nearly 8,000 People

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 1, 2015 Professors at three leading British universities say International Monetary Fund policies favoring the repayment of international debts over social welfare spending contributed to the Ebola crisis by inhibiting an effective response by health care professionals in the three worst-hit African countries. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

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