One Woman’s Harrowing Addiction To Pain Killers
Drug overdoses kill more people in the U.S. than car accidents and 60% of deaths are caused by pain killers.
Under the cover of anonymity people feel emboldened to say hateful things online, which can be hurtful when you are the target. New York Times Deputy Washington Editor Jonathan Weisman explains why he quit Twitter over anti-Semitic bullying — and why he returned. And Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, says that for every big win against hate speech there is inevitably a backlash. Plus, we ask folks in Times Square to tell us their stories of being bullied online.
This episode is sponsored by Remarkable Lives, Tragic Deaths, Close5, The Great Courses, and Casper Mattresses.
When NFL lineman Eugene Monroe spoke out publicly against the NFL’s ban on marijuana, it sparked a national conversation about the merits of cannabis as an alternative method of pain management for players.
Elizabeth Banks is everywhere. Her IMDB page has over 70 credits for a diversity of roles on both the silver screen and television. She is dressed to kill as Effie Trinket in the “Hunger Games” series, her pitch was perfect in the blockbuster sequel, “Pitch Perfect 2,” which she also directed, and now Elizabeth Banks is getting Oscar buzz for her role as the wife of Beach Boy Brian Wilson in “Love & Mercy.”
Ahead of taking the stage at the DNC, the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown sit down with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric to discuss their involvement in the Clinton campaign, current state of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement and deaths of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge.
“Our mission is to end the killing of shelter pets.” For the past thirty years, Frances Battista and a group of friends have been working hard to accomplish that mission, founding Best Friends Animal Society and building the largest no-kill sanctuary for homeless animals in need. Located in the beautiful red rocks of Kanab, Utah, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary is home to about 1,700 animals — cats, dogs, rabbits, birds, horses, goats, pigs and sheep — just to name a few.
Since 1984, more women than men have died each year from heart disease. Heart disease is now the No. 1 killer of women, causing more deaths than all cancers combined. And yet only 56 percent of American women realize that heart disease is their greatest health threat. To combat this gap in understanding – and the heart disease epidemic itself – Barbra Streisand has co-founded the Women’s Heart Alliance, a collaboration between the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles and the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Matt Damon: ‘You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.’
In 2007 he was named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive, but these days, Matt Damon is getting noticed for something far less sexy. “Probably the least sexy thing is water,” says Damon. “But, you know, it’s a huge issue for women and girls, and they’re the ones affected the most. And, as a father of four girls, I feel it personally.”
