Ep. 33 — Ohio Health Issues in Review with Dispatch Reporters Megan Henry and Sheridan Hendrix

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Looking back on 2019 and forward to 2020, in this episode Dan Skinner interviews Megan Henry and Sheridan Hendrix of The Columbus Dispatch about important health-related issues, including vaping, opioid addiction, harm reduction and needle exchange, and more.

The following will provide readers with some background information on subjects discussed on the episode, including articles written by Sheridan Hendrix and Megan Henry:

On Vaping 

CDC Data here. 

Ohio Department of Health data here. 

Selected Dispatch Reporting on Vaping:

• https://www.dispatch.com/news/20191117/ohio-college-student-says-vaping-thc-put-her-on-her-deathbed

• https://www.dispatch.com/news/20191016/ohio-law-requiring-tobacco-buyers-to-be-21-takes-effect

• https://www.dispatch.com/news/20191115/vaping-isnt-healthier-than-smoking-health-care-professionals-warn-but-some-not-quick-to-condemn

Selected Dispatch Reporting on Opioid Addiction and Overdoses

• https://www.dispatch.com/article/20190721/NEWS/190729810

• https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190729/cardinal-health-billion-pills-in-8-years-but-no-role-in-ohios-opioid-crisis/1

Selected Dispatch Reporting on Needle exchange 

• https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190319/advocates-blast-licking-county-health-boards-decision-to-ban-needle-exchange-programs

• https://www.dispatch.com/news/20191122/homeless-advocates-needle-exchange-effort-causes-split-with-licking-county

To listen to Broken Pledge, hosted by Sheridan Hendrix, and reported on with Lucas Sullivan and Mike Wagner, click here. 

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