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A staggering 50-fold increase in deaths related to methamphetamine has been recorded since 1999.
The mortality rate due to methamphetamine use in the United States has seen a fiftyfold surge between 1999 and 2021, according to a report published in the American Journal of Public Health. The study also highlights that a majority of these deaths also involved heroin or fentanyl.
“We looked at trends from 1999 to 2021 and we saw this staggering increase in methamphetamine mortality accompanied by a proportional increase in those deaths that also involved heroin or fentanyl,” said Rachel Hoopsick, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of kinesiology and community health who led the research.
By UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, NEWS BUREAU MARCH 17, 2023
Many meth-related deaths are also tied to heroin and/or fentanyl, a new study finds. Credit: Michael B. Vincent
A staggering 50-fold increase in deaths related to methamphetamine has been recorded since 1999.
The mortality rate due to methamphetamine use in the United States has seen a fiftyfold surge between 1999 and 2021, according to a report published in the American Journal of Public Health. The study also highlights that a majority of these deaths also involved heroin or fentanyl.
“We looked at trends from 1999 to 2021 and we saw this staggering increase in methamphetamine mortality accompanied by a proportional increase in those deaths that also involved heroin or fentanyl,” said Rachel Hoopsick, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of kinesiology and community health who led the research.
According to a new study led by U. of I. kinesiology and community health professor Rachel Hoopsick, a fiftyfold increase in methamphetamine deaths since 1999 may be the deadly result of the contamination or co-use of meth with opioids like heroin and fentanyl. Credit: Fred Zwicky
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 608 deaths due to methamphetamine use in 1999, however, that number skyrocketed to 52,397 in 2021. Researchers Hoopsick and R. Andrew Yockey from the University of Texas, Fort Worth, discovered that a significant portion of these deaths, 61.2%, also involved heroin or fentanyl. The alarming rise in methamphetamine-related fatalities, mainly between 2010 and 2021, shows no signs of slowing down, according to Hoopsick.
“We knew from behavioral studies that the use of stimulants, in general, as well as the use of stimulants with opioids, has been increasing over the past decade or two,” Hoopsick said. “But we didn’t know how deadly it was becoming. I think what is different now versus 10 years ago is we have a much more toxic unregulated drug supply here in the U.S.”
A Wayne County Probate Judge recently made a historic decision. Instead of putting a Dearborn Heights woman under guardianship, he allowed her to retain her independence with something called Supported Decision-Making.
If you’re put under guardianship, that means a court has declared you legally incapacitated. You lose the right to get married, decide what doctor you want to see, or even choose where you want to live. Now one woman with an intellectual disability has shown the state that there is another tool families can use that’s less extreme than guardianship.
A Wayne County Probate Judge recently made a historic decision. Instead of putting a Dearborn Heights woman under guardianship, he allowed her to retain her independence with something called Supported Decision-Making.
Linda VanWormer By: Heather CatalloPosted at 4:13 PM, Mar 17, 2023 and last updated 5:55 PM, Mar 17, 2023 (WXYZ) — A Wayne County Probate Judge recently made a historic decision. Instead of putting a Dearborn Heights woman under guardianship, he allowed her to retain her independence with something called Supported Decision-Making.
If you’re put under guardianship, that means a court has declared you legally incapacitated. You lose the right to get married, decide what doctor you want to see, or even choose where you want to live. Now one woman with an intellectual disability has shown the state that there is another tool families can use that’s less extreme than guardianship.
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Linda VanWormer loves her job. The 56-year-old works at STEP (Services to Enhance Potential) in Dearborn. She also just made history in Michigan.
That’s because Wayne County Chief Probate Judge Freddie Burton Junior just issued an order, denying a petition that would have put Linda under guardianship. Instead, he granted her the freedom to make her own choices using something called Supported Decision-Making, or SDM.
“I do call the shots now,” Linda told 7 Investigator Heather Catallo.
Several eBay teams worked together to create a plug-in that makes it easy to include accessibility in a design right from the start.
There is sometimes a fundamental gap between the engineering and design teams when creating a new product. Designers want their work to be accessible, but many of the available tools are cumbersome, confusing, and come with processes that aren’t well-defined. This can lead to designers delivering their work to engineers without fully baked accessibility, which in turn leads to developers having to shoehorn accessibility in at a later stage than would be ideal — or, unfortunately, being unaware of the need to include it at all.
As a solution, eBay’s Core Accessibility, Design, and Design Tech teams worked to craft a new plug-in for Figma, the popular web-based design tool. The plug-in is called Include, and its goal is to make accessibility annotation easy, smooth, and simple, to ensure that accessibility is a core part of the design experience, rather than something crammed in (and then bug-fixed) later.
Include has thoughtful, elegant solutions to these problems. A designer simply selects a frame for annotations, and then the plug-in presents a list of tactical steps to ensure that their design is available to all. It guides the designer through all those steps, which can be done in any order, explaining the reasoning for each suggestion throughout. For example, Include will create a list of images that the designer used in a mockup. If the designer marks an image as informative, the plugin will prompt them to include alt text — a catch that makes sure that screen readers can describe the image.
There are all sorts of additions to the plug-in that help to complete the steps. One of those additions: It automatically makes a copy of the design with text enlarged to 200%, so the designer can easily see where text may overflow, or where the design may break. That feature is hugely beneficial for designers to consider how their designs will look for those who enlarge the text on their devices.
A major consideration for us at eBay is making tools like this available to all. eBay takes open source very seriously, consistently contributing our work back to the community, and Include has been made with that in mind. It’s available to all, on Figma, which is a free service. And the code itself is open-source, available on Github for all to use. After all, how could we create an accessibility tool and not make it accessible to everyone?
The first app to integrate GPT-4’s image-recognition abilities has been described as ‘life-changing’ by visually-impaired users.
Be My Eyes, a Danish startup, applied the AI model to a new feature for blind or partially-sighted people. Named “Virtual Volunteer,” the object-recognition tool can answer questions about any image that it’s sent.
Imagine, for instance, that a user is hungry. They could simply photograph an ingredient and request related recipes.
If they’d rather eat out, they can upload an image of a map and get directions to a restaurant. On arrival, they can snap a picture of the menu and hear the options. If they then want to work off the added calories in a gym, they can use their smartphone camera to find a treadmill.
ngd-It is important to understand that some sexual and physical abuse occurs in EVERY institution…
In recent months, Wayne County leaders have raised concerns about overcrowding and unsafe conditions at the William Dickerson Detention Center, where juvenile offenders are housed. Law enforcement is now looking into allegations of a sexual assault carried out by some of the young inmates.
Because it’s an open case, there’s not a lot of information that can be made public. However, the Michigan State Police did confirm to CBS News Detroit the county asked them to investigate an assault that allegedly took place at the facility.
A recent Twitter exchange I participated in briefly got me thinking about Accessible Parking, once referred to as “Handicapped Parking.” The conversation started with a wheelchair user sharing frustration at not being able to find an empty Accessible Parking space. It developed into a discussion of whether there might be better ways to organize and allocate designated Accessible Parking.
The exchange didn’t last long. And it was pretty civil and thoughtful. I bring it up only because even though I use Accessible Parking myself, it’s always been one of the disability issues I am least interested in.
That’s probably because I rarely feel deprived of it, since I don’t go places very much. It’s easy to be blase about an advocacy issue when doesn’t directly affect you too often. When I still traveled a lot for work, especially to bigger cities and government buildings to attend meetings and rallies for disability issues, my need for Accessible parking was far more frequent and acute. But even then availability always felt to me more like luck than a matter of justice. Now, where I live, and given my tendency to stay home unless absolutely necessary, I usually find Accessible Parking when I need it. Plus, the combination of time and, frankly, the work of the Independent Living Center in my hometown, where I used to work and am not on the board, means that most of the Accessible Parking I see and need to use is properly laid out and marked.
Also, for a variety of reasons I have never even been all that upset by improper use of Accessible Parking spaces, or convinced that it is widely abused by people who shouldn’t be using them. It’s wrong of course. It causes problems for disabled people, including me occasionally. But I just can’t get angry about it the way some people do, and the way I get angry about other disability issues.
But this Twitter conversation helped me realize one thing about Accessible Parking as a disability issue: it’s at least unambiguous and fairly easy to understand. As an exercise, I tried to break all of it down into its component parts. For example:
Why do some disabled people need Accessible Parking?
A team of researchers from Oregon Health & Science University and various institutions nationwide have discovered a medication, commonly used for treating a skin condition, as a highly promising treatment for alcohol use disorder.
The study was recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Beginning in 2015, Ozburn and collaborators searched a genetic database looking for compounds likely to counteract the expression of genes known to be linked to heavy alcohol use. Apremilast, an FDA-approved anti-inflammatory medication used to treat psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, appeared to be a promising candidate.
They then tested it in two unique animal models that have a genetic of risk for excessive drinking, as well as in other strains of mice at laboratories across the country. In each case, apremilast reduced drinking among a variety of models predisposed to mild to heavy alcohol use. They found that apremilast triggered an increase in activity in the nucleus accumbens, the region of the brain involved in controlling alcohol intake.
Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, then tested apremilast in people.
The Scripps team conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical proof-of-concept study involving 51 people who were assessed over 11 days of treatment.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed antibiotic resistance as a top ten global health threat, making it imperative to find new ways to combat resistant bacteria and decrease the reliance on antibiotics. In response to this pressing issue, researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a new spray that has the ability to kill even antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This innovative solution can be used for wound care and directly on medical devices such as implants.
“Our innovation can have a dual impact in the fight against antibiotic resistance. The material has been shown to be effective against many different types of bacteria, including those that are resistant to antibiotics, such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), while also having the potential to prevent infections and thus reduce the need for antibiotics,” says Martin Andersson, head of research for the study and professor at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Chalmers.
Summary: Controlled nighttime use of social media and apps can help ease teenagers’ negative thoughts before they fall asleep, a new study reports.
Source: Flinders University
Overuse of mobile devices gets a bad rap but an upside may be their ability to create a distraction and positively affect teenagers’ ability to get to sleep, new Flinders University research shows.
Feedback from more than 600 teenagers from age 12 to 18 at South Australian schools between June and September 2019 has led the international research group to point to a more nuanced view on using the wide range of mobile content – led by Youtube, music apps, Instagram and Snapchat – before young people’s bedtime.
“Many teenagers struggle with a racing mind when sleep doesn’t come easy,” says lead corresponding author Dr Serena Bauducco, a visiting postdoctoral researcher from Örebro University, Sweden.
“This study shows that many adolescents use technology to distract themselves from negative thoughts, which may help them manage the sleep-onset process. Thus, distraction may be one mechanism explaining how sleep affects technology use, rather than vice-versa,” the study concludes.
