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The Hunger Game
Last month, the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington DC issued a dire report: 38% of households in the region were “food insecure”. Local news outlets dutifully amplified the numbers.
Source: NBCWashington.com
The food bank called its stu...
What are the Lessons from the Drop in Drug Overdoses?
Drug overdose deaths have dropped almost in half in the past three years. And with that, the topic seems to have dropped out of the news. According to a newspaper database that I searched, in 2025 there were more articles mentioning measles...
Obesity is Falling Even in Teens
In a startling reversal, the obesity rate in U.S. teens is now falling. Here are trends in CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a biannual survey of high school students.
Graph: Healthscaping. Data: CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Between 202...
What’s Happening in Teen Mental Health?
A couple of months back, I wrote that the surge of depression in teens and young adults was fading, based on data from the 2025 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).
Graph: Healthscaping. Data: National Survey on Drug Use and Hea...
Do Safe Injection Facilities Save Lives?
In good news of the week, rates of fatal drug overdoses keep falling.
Source: CDC
But that’s falling from an astronomical peak. In 2024, CDC reported 108,000 deaths from overdoses, almost all involving opioids. In 2025, the death toll was...
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