OPIOID EPIDEMIC IN AMERICA

Antarctica Journal - Opioid Epidemic In America

There is an opioid epidemic in the US which has contributed to the deaths of Americans.  Approximately 1.5% of Americans have died from opioid overdoses which is more than the 1% of Americans who died in the Vietnam War.  In the late 1990’s pharmaceutical companies assured medical institutions that opioids would not become addictive.  So, with this information the medical […]

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The costly epidemic of disability

For many Americans, collecting disability has become a career, said Michael Barone. Over the past 50 years, the number of people receiving benefits from the Social Security disability program created to help Americans who are too sick to work—has rocketed from 455,000 to 8.6 million. An incredible 5.6 percent of adults are now getting disability checks, with a cost to […]

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Fugitive Captured Thanks to Doughnut Contest

A North Carolina man who had spent nine months on the run from police was caught when he won a police sponsored doughnut eating contest. Bradley Hardison, 24, gobbled down eight doughnuts in two minutes at an event in Elizabeth City, NC. He defeated several locals, including police officers. Officer Max Robeson saw a report about the contest in a […]

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World Beyond Pluto

A dark planet in space with a faint star visible in the background against a black sky.

New Horizons has found a more distant world out beyond Pluto about 1 billion miles away from the sun on its travels through the Kuiper Belt.  This new world may be an icy relic left over from the formation of the planet Pluto.  Right now, NASA is calling it 2014 MU69 and will eventually give a proper name.  2014 MU69 […]

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Pakistani activists seek to block Chinese power plants

Karachi, Pakistan Nuclear plants at risk: Pakistani activists are seeking to block the construction of two nuclear power plants in an earthquake-prone, coastal area that is vulnerable to tsunamis. The Chinese are building the two reactors—using an experimental design—less than 20 miles from the sprawling city of Karachi, where 20 million people would be at risk should a reactor meltdown […]

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SONIC ATTACK in Guangzhnou, China

SONIC ATTACK in Guangzhnou, China

American citizens in China have been given a Health Alert.  Some US government employees have complained of hearing strange sounds and having pressure headaches.  One of the employees was sent back to the US for evaluation and the results came back as a mild traumatic brain injury.  China is now investigating this situation.  Back in 2016 Secretary of State Rex […]

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