Posts Tagged ‘poverty’
Why Coronavirus Is the Modern-Day Titanic
Today, we are undergoing a very different disaster, but the same disparities are still in play.
Read MoreThe Reason People Become Addicted Is Multifactorial
Debunking the Myths About Why Opioid Addictions Develop
Read MoreThe Painful Truth About Suicide
Suicide Rates Have Reached a 30-year High Suicide rates have reached a 30-year high, according to the New York Times. “This is part of the larger emerging pattern of evidence of the links between poverty, hopelessness and health,” according to Robert D. Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard University. It’s true that poverty,…
Read MoreWhat Is the Correlation Between Financial Stress and the Ability to Cope with Pain?
The authors of this Harvard Business Review article appropriately report an association between economic insecurity and the rise in painkiller consumption. Of course, a person’s painkiller consumption may increase for many reasons, but augmented pain due to stress certainly may be one reason. The Experience of Pain People consume painkillers primarily because of pain which…
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