Congress may have moved on from health care. The public has not. With taxes and spending, debt and defense piled up on Congress’ extremely full plate this month, a new poll by POLITICO and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows that Americans remain sharply focused on health […] Read more »
How Opioids Started Killing Americans
… More than half of all people who succumbed to an overdose between 2001 to 2007 were chronic pain sufferers who filled an opioid prescription and sometimes even saw a doctor in the month before they died. Only 4 percent were ever diagnosed as having an abuse problem, said Dr. Mark […] Read more »
Substance Abuse Spikes as Perceived Health Problem
On the heels of President Donald Trump’s recent declaration that the opioid crisis is a health emergency, Americans’ mentions of drug and alcohol abuse as the most urgent national health problem have spiked. In November 2017, 14% of U.S. adults named it the most urgent health problem in the country, […] Read more »
More in U.S. Say Illegal Drugs Are a More Serious Problem
Seventy-one percent of Americans describe the problem of illegal drugs in the U.S. as “extremely” or “very” serious, an increase from 65% last year. While this is a meaningful change since 2016 overall, the percentage who say the problem is “extremely serious” (32%) has held relatively steady over the past […] Read more »
Record-High Support for Legalizing Marijuana Use
Americans continue to warm to legalizing marijuana, with 64% now saying its use should be made legal. This is the highest level of public support Gallup has found for the proposal in nearly a half-century of measurement. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
Most Americans think Trump hasn’t done enough to fix opioid crisis
Most Americans think the opioid crisis has worsened in their communities and across the country, but few believe their own lives will be affected, according to a new poll from the PBS NewsHour and Marist Poll. … Whatever the solution, Americans don’t think the nation’s leaders are doing enough to […] Read more »