Almost 20 percent of college men have committed some kind of sexual assault, and 4 percent have committed rape, according to a study published by UGA researchers who were examining the link between different kinds of narcissism and the perpetration of sexual assaults. Read the full article: Athens Banner-Herald
This article is the product of a collaboration between Georgia Health News and the UGA Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, a partnership made possible by the Ford Foundation and Grady College. More articles on health care in rural Georgia will follow this one in Georgia Health News. The nursing home had closed and…
President Obama, speaking in Atlanta at a summit on drug abuse, said Tuesday that government must spend more money on treatment of people addicted to opioid drugs. The nation’s surging opioid epidemic, he said, “is costing lives and devastating communities.” Opioid drugs include heroin as well as prescription painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone. The…
Support for medical marijuana being grown legally in the state fueled a bill this legislative session, but internal state emails indicate the medical marijuana cultivation bill never stood a chance. Read the full article: 11alive.com
With the foster care population on the rise and caseworker loads increasing, the state budget for child welfare is struggling to meet the needs of Georgia DFCS, says the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. Read the full article: Rome News-Tribune
Expanding the state’s Medicaid program could bring tens of thousands of low-income Georgia into treatment for mental health and substance use problems, federal officials said Monday. A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report said 159,000 uninsured Georgians with mental illness or a substance use disorder had incomes that would qualify them for expanded…
The number of people dependent on opioids is increasing, and that includes women of child-bearing age, researchers estimate hat a baby was born dependent on opioids every 25 minutes in 2012, the most recent year for which data are available.
The storybook picture of life in the suburbs includes things like emerald lawns and a certain degree of affluence, but in reality, 88 percent of the region’s poor live in Atlanta’s suburbs. Read the full article: WABE
A comedy show will benefit a 46-year-old Columbus man who is on a kidney transplant list and is praying his opportunity arrives soon. Read the full article: Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
The average age of people suffering the deadliest heart attacks fell from 64 years old to 60 years old over the past two decades, and obesity is now implicated in 40 percent of severe heart attacks.