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Writer. Journalist. MPH/MJ @UCBerkeleySPH @ucbsoj Formerly: startup reporter @SFBusinessTimes | Bylines: @KFFHealthNews @TheAtlantic @Health_Affairs @YouthToday

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California Confronts the Threat of ‘Tranq’ as Overdose Crisis Rages

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By Brian Rinker Verified
| Montana Standard Verified
SAN FRANCISCO — When the city’s medical examiner announced in February that four people who had recently died of overdoses had the animal sedative xylazine in their systems, public health workers across the state sprang into action. Drug dealers on the East Coast had in recent years begun mixing xylazine, which can have devastating effects on people, with the opioid fentanyl, causing a surge in emergency room visits in Philadelphia and other cities.
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Some states fill the void as post-pandemic federal afterschool program funds disappear

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By Brian Rinker Verified
| Youth Today Verified
In the three years since Sante Fe’s Boys and Girls Clubs converted retail space in a local mall into the Del Norte Teen Center, project directors have counted over 4,000 teenagers filing inside to hang out with friends, play Xbox or PlayStation, get free haircuts or snag a pair of socks and deodorant. “Often the teens just want to come in and just chill,” said Sarah Gettler, the clubs’ CEO.
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Testing AI's pluses and minuses in after-school programming

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By Brian Rinker Verified
| Youth Today Verified
When Angel Toscano asked ChatGPT for 10 Halloween-themed activities related to science, technology, engineering, arts and math — STEAM, for short — that could be done with minimum supplies, the popular artificial intelligence bot instantaneously spat out several ideas: Spider web geometry. Pumpkin catapults. Ghost rockets.
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