Helena Hansen

May 6, 2024 | ajp.psychiatryonline.org | Joseph Friedman |Helena Hansen

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Apr 10, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Joseph Friedman |Helena Hansen

The deaths of despair theory is influential in understanding the declining health status among people in the US.1,2 The seminal analysis1 on the topic highlighted that midlife deaths from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholic liver disease were driving a unique decrease in life expectancy among White individuals.

Aug 30, 2023 | thenation.com | Lizzie Tribone |Katrina vanden Heuvel |Helena Hansen |David Herzberg

Society / Cash transfer programs are forging a path for guaranteed income. Ad PolicyA wave of new cash transfer programs that target pregnant and postpartum people is emerging across the United States, offering a lifeline to low-income families and reviving the discussion on the afterlife of pandemic-era expanded earned income and child tax credits.

Aug 28, 2023 | thenation.com | Jon Wiener |Helena Hansen |Jules Netherland |David Herzberg

Jon Wiener: I’ve read a lot of memoirs written by sixties people and virtually all trace the origins of their activism to the same moment: the sit-in movement in the spring of 1960. But your epiphany, as you call it, the shock of recognition that spurred you to take your first political act, came well before 1960, although it did involve the Civil Rights Movement. Tell us about your epiphany, and how old you were at the time. Drew Faust: I was nine.

Aug 28, 2023 | thenation.com | Helena Hansen |Jules Netherland |David Herzberg |Amanda Moore

In America today, while the “opioid crisis” is still commonly associated with white people, overdose deaths are increasing the fastest in Black and brown communities. As the overdose rate climbs, government at all levels has been far slow to implement strategies that we already know can reduce harms. It raises a haunting historical specter: Will overdoses be one more white crisis that ultimately delivers the worst harms to Black and brown people?