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• States make headway on opioid abuse
• Despite tragic blaze, New York's fire fatalities are sharply down
• Iceland has largely kicked teen drinking. What can it teach other countries?

States make headway on opioid abuse Posted: 29 Dec 2017 12:34 PM PST In Massachusetts and Rhode Island partial year estimates for 2017 show drops of 10 percent and 9 percent respectively in overdose deaths. Massachusetts was the first of what are now many states that limit the number of opioid pills doctors can prescribe per prescription.

Despite tragic blaze, New York's fire fatalities are sharply down Posted: 29 Dec 2017 12:28 PM PST Just one year ago, New York City officials were celebrating the lowest number of fire fatalities the city had ever seen in over 100 years. It was the largest number of fatalities in a single fire in New York since 1990, when 87 people perished in an arson attack on a Bronx social club – less than a mile from the scene of last night's deadly fire. "We're here at the scene of an unspeakable tragedy in the middle of the holiday season, a time when families are ­together," said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) at a press conference Thursday evening, with temperatures in the teens.

Iceland has largely kicked teen drinking. What can it teach other countries? Posted: 29 Dec 2017 07:01 AM PST In the late 1980s, when Björgvin Ívar Guðbrandsson was a teenager, alcohol and school dances went hand-in-hand. Today, as a teacher at Langholt school in Reykjavik where he once studied, he says that if a student were to show up drunk to a dance, it would  be such a scandal that the school principal would likely call child protective services. Recommended: Think you know Europe?

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