Assessment of tobacco use, health outcomes, and related policies in Indiana and Marion County
Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI
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Indiana’s Troubling Increase in Hepatitis C Cases is a Direct Result of the Opioid Crisis
Claire Fiddian-Green is the President & CEO of the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently released a report showing that new Hepatitis C cases in the U.S. grew by nearly 300 percent between 2010 and 2015. The root cause of this dramatic increase is the opioid epidemic – specifically, the […]
New Research Finds Statewide Tobacco 21 (T-21) Laws Appear to be Working
According to @nberpubs, statewide Tobacco 21 (#T21) laws that prohibit the sale of tobacco products to people under the age of 21 appear to be having their intended outcome of reducing youth tobacco use.