No opioid crisis in Canada’s eastern Arctic
Fentanyl has made it to Nunavut, but officials say that unlike the rest of Canada, it’s nowhere near a crisis.
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Hundreds more deaths than average during Sweden’s summer heatwave
The record temperatures this summer led to an estimated 700 more deaths, suggests new figures from the Public Health Agency.
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Alaska officials consider lawsuit against opioid drugmakers
The State of Alaska is looking into whether it should sue the manufacturers of opioid painkillers for their contributions to
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‘Over 15 mph, we make clouds’: Road dust plagues rural Alaska
BETHEL — Across rural Alaska, cars, trucks and four-wheelers kick up clouds of road dust, a plague that coats tundra berries and
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More than 800 000 reindeer to be vaccinated against anthrax in Russia
In the course of summer, the whole reindeer population of the Nenets tundra will be made immune against the lethal
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Alaska governor declares opioid abuse public health disaster
Gov. Bill Walker issued an order Tuesday officially declaring the state’s opioid crisis a public health disaster.
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Alaska assembles Narcan ‘rescue kits’ in hopes of preventing overdose deaths
In the storage room of a Wasilla boutique, 35 volunteers worked a makeshift assembly line Thursday, putting together kits to
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