Opioid Crisis Growing Along With COVID-19 Pandemic

Opioid Crisis Growing Along With COVID-19 Pandemic

Drug overdoses had plateaued at around 70,000 deaths a year from 2017 to 2019. Then, as the first wave hit in April 2020, the total number of overdoses in the last 12 months hit a new high of 80,000 deaths, with the number only climbing higher and higher as the...

Domestic Abuse: A Shadow Pandemic Within the Pandemic

Devastatingly, around one in three women worldwide experience physical or sexual violence, mostly by an intimate partner. As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, this number has only grown. The United Nations entity, UN Women, reports increasing cases of domestic violence...