Two Colville women were booked into a rural Washington jail. It became a death sentence
Critics say WA jails are letting opioid users suffer from withdrawals, leading to preventable deaths
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Hidden epidemics: Disasters are driving a mental health crisis
Disasters, including wildfires, hurricanes and flooding, are intensifying as climate change accelerates.
Can U.S. health authorities learn from BC’s experience with wildfire smoke?
British Columbia health specialists are ahead of their counterparts in the U.S. when it comes to anticipating sicknesses resulting from wildfire smoke.
Government, employers do little to protect outdoor workers from smoke
Government and employers do little to protect outdoor laborer such as farmworkers, mail carriers and construction crews from the effects of wildfire smoke.
Exposure to heat and wildfire smoke may harm babies, unborn infants
New research indicates that exposure to heat and other forms of pollution during pregnancy increases the risk of stillbirth and low birth weight.
How much smoke is too much? And... comparisons to Beijing are tricky
Health researchers know that wildfire smoke is bad for everyone and have an idea which groups of people are most vulnerable.
Washington housing foster care kids at state offices in record-breaking numbers
The number of times that state child-welfare workers housed foster children overnight in government offices has exploded, from six times in the last reporting period to 284.
