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Coronavirus takes toll on progress made in fight against addiction

As the COVID-19 pandemic killed more than a half-million Americans, it also quietly inflamed what was before it one of the country’s greatest public health crises: addiction.

One in three coronavirus survivors face psychiatric diagnoses within 6 months: study

New findings suggest one in three coronavirus survivors of some 236,000 individuals under study went on to receive a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis within six months.

Nearly 40,000 kids lost a parent to COVID-19, study suggests

An estimated 40,000 children in the U.S. have lost at least one parent to COVID-19, new findings suggest, with adolescents accounting for the majority of the total.

Hunter Biden details 2019 family drug intervention a month before father announced presidential campaign

In his forthcoming book "Beautiful Things," Hunter Biden delves into his struggles with addiction, including a dramatic intervention that his family staged for him in March 2019.

New York man smokes pot in front of two NYPD police officers in celebration of legal marijuana

New York adults over the age of 21 can now possess and use marijuana — even in public — under a legalization bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, though legal sales of recreational-use cannabis won’t start for an estimated 18 months until regulations are set.

US Capitol attacker may have suffered head trauma from playing football, family says

The deranged driver who fatally rammed a police officer before being gunned down outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday may have suffered repeated head trauma during years of playing football, his family said Saturday.

Demi Lovato recreates near-fatal overdose in new music video for 'Dancing with the Devil'

Demi Lovato depicts moments from her near-fatal 2018 overdose in her new music video for "Dancing with the Devil."

Hunter Biden claims he doesn’t know if laptop is his, reveals father once chased him during drug intervention

Hunter Biden in a pair of interview clips released Friday claimed that he does not know whether the laptop first reported on by the New York Post during the presidential campaign was his, and revealed that his father, President Biden, once chased him down the family's driveway as he tried to escape an intervention. 

Hailey Baldwin on quitting Twitter: ‘The thought of opening the app gives me bad anxiety’

Model and wife of Justin Bieber, Hailey Baldwin said in a video posted to her YouTube channel that she abandoned Twitter because “The thought of even opening the app gives me such bad anxiety that I feel like I’m gonna throw up.”

Journalist Michael Moss says people have been conditioned to consume processed foods like a drug addiction

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and food science author Michael Moss joined Tucker Carlson for the second installment of his Fox Nation program "Tucker Carlson Today", and discussed the dangers of processed foods and how humans are being conditioned to become addicted to them as they are already naturally conducive to being hooked on illicit drugs.