The rural South’s invisible public health crisis
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Poverty and poor sewage infrastructure have led to a surge in tropical diseases typically found in developing countries.
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A bill that gives human rights to embryos is headed to the South Carolina Senate floor
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A look at who’s behind the controversial “personhood” bill in South Carolina, and why it’s come further than ever before.
Southern Politics
Why Transgender Health Care is Primary Care
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Even before Donald Trump moved to legalize discrimination in the health care industry, many trans people were driving hundreds of miles just to see a doctor.
Southern Politics
Many tactics, but no cheap solutions to mental health crisis in Columbus County
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Despite scarce resources, many in Columbus County are crafting ways to address the mental health crisis in their community. And they're looking for the state of North Carolina to do more.
Blue in Columbus County
Schools witness fallout from behavioral health crisis
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With increasing rates of substance abuse among parents, schools are scrambling to adapt to non-academic challenges and are striving to work with students more holistically to address behavioral and emotional needs.
Blue in Columbus County
Mental health care failing, the economy and opioids deal a crushing blow to many
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Columbus County, North Carolina faces steep challenges in treating mental illness and addiction. In this series, we examine the roots of the problem and the interventions that can help. Today: how the health system came to fail so many.
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A Republican backup plan for killing Obamacare
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Republicans haven’t succeeded at repealing the Affordable Care Act. But in Kentucky, they’re trying to roll back coverage another way, through a waiver program that the Trump administration could approve without red tape.
Southern Politics
Virginia’s new needle exchange law may limit access in hard-hit areas
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A law that legalizes syringe exchanges excludes the state’s most populous county from eligibility. Advocates say that’s a problem—and it could criminalize people trying to get clean needles.
Southern Politics
Two poems: “Job 9:20, America, 2017” and “They Found an Underwater Forest in Alabama”
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If you told me in all my days / about this island under the waves / or this swamp in an ocean desert / well the words wouldn’t bring it to me— / not the forest, nor the trees. / But I always knew we was sinkin.
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Editorial: Saving Southern lives means standing up for Medicaid
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The GOP health care bill is especially threatening for low-income and unemployed Americans living in rural areas—a disproportionate number of whom are Black and Latinx, a disproportionate number of whom live in the South.