Title: Does Medical Marijuana Decrease Opioid Use or Boost It?

URL: http://wapo.st/2HcLFyS?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.d84400c6f602

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: Article titled, "Does Medical Marijuana Decrease Opioid Use or Boost It?,"published on the Washington Post web site on April 20, 2018. The article looks at the correlation between opioid users and medical marijuana users, and how conflicting data allows scientists and politicians to state their cases using information that fits their viewpoints.

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Title: Why doctors don’t use alternatives to opioids

URL: http://wapo.st/2HeBRn7?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.7d7e2d2e189b

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: Blog post titled, "Why doctors don't use alternatives to opioids," by Keith Humphreys published on the Washington Post web site's "Wonkblog" on April 12, 2018. The post explores some reasons why doctors continue to prescribe opioids when confronted with patients who describe pain, including pharmaceutical marketing and lack of training, and advocates for Congressional support of the development of non-opioid pain treatment.

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Title: The disturbing reason behind the spike in organ donations

URL: http://wapo.st/2vlsDk2?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.77944f92d81b

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: Article titled, "The disturbing reason behind the spike in organ donations," by Cleve R. Wootson, Jr. published on the Washington Post web site on April 17, 2018. The article covers the increase in organ donations as a result of the uptick in opioid-related deaths.

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Title: Doctor's Duty to Ease Pain At Issue in Calif. Lawsuit - The Washington Post

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/05/07/doctors-duty-to-ease-pain-at-issue-in-calif-lawsuit/c5cce996-344e-40d3-b656-c5da7338e050/

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: Article titled, "Doctor's Duty to Ease Pain At Issue in California Lawsuit" by Susan Okiewas published on the Washington Post web site on May 7, 2001. The article gives the background on one of the first lawsuits against a physician for the undertreatment of pain. The case, originating in California, involves a patient's family suing a doctor (following the patient's death) claiming that the prescribed drugs were not powerful enough to reduce the patient's pain and reflected the growing influence of patients and advocacy groups to demand better pain management.

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Title: The cure for our Ebola panic is more panic - The Washington Post

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2014/10/24/the-cure-for-our-ebola-panic-is-more-panic/?wpmm=AG0003285

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Article titled, "The cure for our Ebola panic is more panic," by Alexandra Petri was published on the Washington Post web site on October 24, 2014. The article reasons that the best way to deal with the Ebola panic is to distract oneself with panic about other dangers that one is more likely to encounter.

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Title: Nurse quarantined in New Jersey after returning from Ebola mission is released - The Washington Post

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/10/27/nurse-detained-under-new-jerseys-ebola-quarantine-to-be-released/?hpid=z1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Article titled, "Nurse quarantined in New Jersey after returning from Ebola mission is released," by Abby Ohlheiser and Cecilia Kang published on the Washington Post web site on October 27, 2014. The article discusses the mandated quarantine of Kaci Hickox, a nurse who returned to New Jersey from Sierra Leone where she had been working with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) treating Ebola patients.

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Title: New York City physician has Ebola. Mayor: ‘No reason for New Yorkers to be alarmed.’ - The Washington Post

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/23/n-y-health-worker-who-recently-returned-from-west-africa-being-evaluated-for-ebola/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Article titled, "New York City physician has Ebola. Mayor: ‘No reason for New Yorkers to be alarmed,’" by Abby Phillip, Elahe Izadi and Lena H. Sun published on the Washington Post web site on October 23, 2014. The article discusses the reaction to the fourth individual to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States.

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Title: Stop stigmatizing Ebola volunteers. Americans aren’t doing enough to end the epidemic. - The Washington Post

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/30/stop-stigmatizing-ebola-volunteers-americans-arent-doing-enough-to-end-the-epidemic/?wpmm=AG0003327

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Article titled, "Stop stigmatizing Ebola volunteers. Americans aren’t doing enough to end the epidemic," by Celine Gounder published on the Washington Post web site on October 30, 2014. The article explores the lack of an American financial response to the Ebola crisis.

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Title: Opioid-addicted zebrafish attempt to get a hit 2,000 times in 50 minutes, study says - The Washington Post

URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/01/opioid-addicted-zebrafish-attempt-to-get-a-hit-2000-times-in-50-minutes-study-says/?utm_term=.b11e3932140d

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: Article titled, "Opioid-addicted zebrafish attempt to get a hit 2,000 times in 50 minutes, study says" by Travis M. Andrews was published on the Washington Post web site on September 1, 2017. The article describes a study run by researchers at the University of Utah published in the journal of Behavioral Brain Research that looked at opioid addicted zebrafish with the hope of learning something that will be useful in treating opioid addicted humans.

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Title: Control of CRISPR, biotech’s most promising breakthrough, is in dispute - The Washington Post

URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/13/control-of-crispr-biotechs-most-promising-breakthrough-is-up-for-grabs/

Collection: Bioethics web archive

Description: Article titled, "Control of CRISPR, biotech's most promising breakthrough, is in dispute," by Carolyn Y. Johnson published on the Washington Post web site on January 13, 2016. The article discusses the battle over the CRISPR patent.

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Title: A social media war just erupted over the biotech innovation of the century - The Washington Post

URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/20/is-a-history-of-biotechs-hottest-breakthrough-propaganda/

Collection: Bioethics web archive

Description: Article titled, "A social media war just erupted over the biotech innovation of the century," by Carolyn J. Johnson published in the Washington Post on January 20, 2016. The article covers the backlash in response to the Dr. Eric S. (ES) Lander article, "Heroes of CRISPR," on Twitter in the midst of a dispute over the CRISPR patent involving the author.

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Title: NIH Director Francis Collins on America’s opioid crisis - The Washington Post

URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/postlive/nih-directorfrancis-collins-on-opioid-crisis-in-the-us/2017/09/20/cfb04e68-9e41-11e7-b2a7-bc70b6f98089_video.html?utm_term=.6815562eea53/

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: A Washington Post Live video featuring the National Institutes of Health (NIH) director discussing the role of the NIH in combating the opioid epidemic in the United States.

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