Harm Reduction

Over 15 years, from 2000 to 2015, there were 612,030 motor vehicle fatalities, 37% involved one or more drivers with a positive BAC. While the majority, 85%, involved a legally impaired level, roughly 34,000 deaths involved lower amounts.

Air pollution epidemiology has tended to emphasize premature mortality; the NIH database lists over 3000 papers with those terms in the title or abstract.

The study considers the period from 2011 to 2017, after the "Chernobyl-induced" moratorium, when 10 of the seventeen operational nuclear reactors in Germany were shut down.

Probiotics, like supplements, come under the regulatory oversight of the FDA.

Background

#Reprinted with permission. Dr. Singer's original article can be found here.

Here are some possibilities. Maybe we’re looking at the wrong pollutants. 

 

So begins a letter from one of our readers. Turns out, there is a problem, and the applied solutions have not been especially helpful. Here’s what we found.

I bought my first electronic cigarette (e-cigarette, e-cig) in 2012. After a month of smoking and using an e-cig (vaping), I finished off my last pack of Camels and gave up tobacco forever.