Databases help show Rx troubles in Nevada
By Alex RichardsEven after accounting for rapid growth, the silver state still ranked first in the nation for hydrocodone consumption in 2006 – more commonly known by the brand names Vicodin and Lortab – as well as fourth for medical morphine, methadone and oxycodone.
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By Patrick Lakamp
We already suspected a disproportionate number of Western New York’s lottery players live in Buffalo's poor neighborhoods. The lure of a $1 and a dream is strong where poverty rates run high.
But our simple question had not been answered: Are they as likely to win as players from wealthier areas?
Our mapping analysis found that, not only are the poor more likely to buy lottery tickets, they are more likely to lose as well.
By Larry Wheeler
The Environmental Protection Agency estimates the nation's aging and overburdened sanitary sewer systems overflow at least 23,000 times a year and discharge between three billion and 10 billion gallons of raw sewage into streams, rivers and lakes. The problem is even bigger – 850 billion gallons bigger - when older sewer systems that discharge both storm water and sewage from the same pipe are included in the tally. But there is no national database to chronicle when, where and how much.
By Matt Canham
A late night call from my mother put me on the trail of Utah’s worst nursing homes. “Grandpa fell down and is at the hospital," she said. "The doctors tell us we have to put him in a nursing home. But, Matt, how do I pick? How do I know what place will really take care of him?”
By Chase Davis
It has become a common refrain among journalists who want to develop data-rich Web applications: What good is learning programming skills if our newsroom IT sentries won’t give us a server to work on?
By Sharon Theimer
President Bush has called Iran part of an "axis of evil" and accused it of helping terrorists, meddling in Iraq and trying to develop nuclear weapons. I decided to see whether Bush's tough rhetoric was reflected in the United States’ exports to Iran. Bush has been pressing the United Nations and European Union to impose tougher sanctions on Iran, but he hasn’t pursued stronger U.S.-only limits on trade.
By Chris Halsne
I knew the headline from the fatal luxury motor home crash would be short-lived, something like: RV loses brakes on mountain. One dead.
I stuck a note inside my “when-I-have-time” file as a reminder to pursue the story later. Within two days, the accident fell off the local news media’s radar.
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