Opioid Crisis Fast Facts | CNN

CNN  —  Here’s a look at the opioid crisis. Experts say the United States is in the throes of an opioid epidemic. An estimated 8.9 million Americans aged 12 and older misused opioids in 2022, including 8.5 million prescription pain reliever abusers and 1 million heroin users. Opioids are drugs formulated to replicate the …

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Stocks hit record again. But is Trump the reason?

The Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 each hit new all-time highs Monday. Investors are giddy with excitement and they clearly believe that both big blue chip multinationals and smaller companies that do most of their business in the U.S. will continue to thrive. So is this the Donald Trump rally? Or the …

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Trader Joe’s Keeps Up Trademark Fight Against Workers’ Union

Trader Joe’s isn’t backing down in a trademark battle with its workers’ union. Last month a federal judge threw out all of the company’s claims that the union, Trader Joe’s United, had violated its trademarks with the union’s name and logo. The judge went so far as to say that the company’s attorneys nearly …

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Three Priorities for Moving Your GenAI Program Forward

In late 2023, many organizations were still experimenting with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) by using it to streamline processes, increase productivity, or kick-start creative projects. But what’s next for GenAI, and how can it serve your business? Forrester predicts a shift in 2024 toward the use of GenAI as an enabler of larger strategic …

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The New N.F.L. Owners?

As team valuations skyrocket, the league is weighing whether to relax ownership rules that prohibit investment from private equity funds. Source link

What Happens When TikTok Is Your Marketing Department

In 2018, The Pink Stuff was little more than a home cleaning product with a cute name. “The miracle cleaning paste,” as it said on every container, was sold by just two retail chains in Britain. At a factory near Birmingham, The Pink Stuff line operated for about two hours every month. That was …

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Interesting Note on Cognition and Anger

I wanted to share a note I received from TPM Reader JR and my reply. Helps me refine my understanding of what we see in both Biden and Trump and how they are both perceived. From TPM Reader JR … I’m a practicing psychiatrist who has evaluated many people over the years for dementia. …

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Why ‘Bidenomics’ Isn’t Working For Biden

Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. nrakich (Nathaniel Rakich, senior elections analyst): For a long time, the economy has been seen as a big liability for President Biden in his reelection bid. Inflation soared in 2021 and 2022, culminating at a rate of 9.1 percent last June. The …

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