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Jan 19, 2025 |
nytimes.com | Oliver Whang |Eric Martin |Jack D’Isidoro |Krish Seenivasan |John Woo |Aaron Esposito | +2 more
Ingrid Jackson had never lived in a trailer before, or a small town. She was born in Louisville, Ky., the daughter of a man with schizophrenia who, in 1983, decapitated a 76-year-old woman. Jackson was 1 at the time. In 2010, at 27, she was in a car accident and was prescribed pain pills. Not long after that, she began using heroin. Over the next decade she went through nine rounds of addiction rehab. Each ended in relapse.
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Dec 10, 2024 |
nytimes.com | Oliver Whang
Louisa, Ky., is a small town of about 2,600 on the border of West Virginia with a single pair of railroad tracks running through it. If you follow these tracks south, against the flow of the Big Sandy River, you'll go between the public library and the Main Street Park and over Lick Creek, one of the manifold creeks that web eastern Kentucky like capillaries.
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Aug 13, 2024 |
myheraldreview.com | Oliver Whang
PINEVILLE, W.Va. — Joanna Bailey, a family physician and obesity specialist, doesn’t want to tell her patients that they can’t take Wegovy, but she has gotten used to it. Around a quarter of the people she sees in her small clinic in Wyoming County would benefit from weight-loss medications which include Ozempic, Zepbound and Mounjaro, she said. The drugs have helped some of them lose 15% to 20% of their weight.
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Jul 24, 2024 |
lrb.co.uk | Oliver Whang
In 1917, the United States Coal and Coke Company established a mining camp named after the company president, Thomas Lynch, just north of the Cumberland Gap in eastern Kentucky, at the foot of Black Mountain, the highest peak in the state. By the start of the Second World War, more than ten thousand people were living in Lynch, and the mines, which employed four thousand, were among the most productive in the world.
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Jul 19, 2024 |
nytimes.com | Oliver Whang
Public employees in West Virginia who took the drugs lost weight and were healthier, and some are despondent that the state is canceling a program to help pay for them.
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