Nano Technology

World's smallest diamonds made into wires three atoms wide.

Scientists have discovered a way to use diamondoids – the smallest possible bits of diamond – to assemble atoms into the thinnest possible electrical wires, just three atoms wide.

The Opioid / Heroin Crisis in America

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CDC Chief Frieden: How to end America's growing opioid epidemic

EXCLUSIVE: CDC Chief Frieden: How to end America's growing opioid epidemic
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One of the most heartbreaking problems I’ve faced as CDC director is our nation’s opioid crisis.

In 2015, more than 52,000 Americans lost their lives from an overdose. More than 33,000 of these deaths involved a prescription or illicit opioid.

Charleston Gazette-Mail -- Eric Eyre
Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses

Between 2007 and 2012 — when McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen collectively shipped 423 million pain pills to West Virginia, according to DEA data analyzed by the Gazette-Mail — the companies earned a combined $17 billion in net income. Over the past four years, the CEOs of McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen collectively received salaries and other compensation of more than $450 million.

Highly Recommended book:
Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic -- by Sam Quinones