Things aren’t going so hot in the public-health war against the opioid epidemic that is sweeping America right now. Deaths from opioid overdoses hit an , the latest year for which there’s official data, and there isn’t much reason to
"has a significant effect on prescribing patterns and spending in Medicare Part D,"
(Source: National Constitution Center ) Critics of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have accused eachcandidate of having the ability to create a...
Public Technologies 2016-07-22Colonialism, public debt, expropriation. These are what Karl Marx called primitive forms of accumulation; the spark that ignited the flame of capitalism. In David Cribb’s...
Kill Screen 2016-07-25Anti-EU protestors in Greece last year. Credit Suisse has identified four crunch points that could bring about another crisis in Europe. The 28-nation bloc seems to have...
Business Insider 2016-07-28John Oliver has never been shy about voicing his opinion, and there’s no greater proof of that than in his latest rant on his HBO hit series, Late Night with John Oliver,...
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(Source: Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority ) Beginning in 2010, the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority awarded several grants to the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Chicago (NAMI-C) to fund Crisis Intervention Training For Youth courses to officers at the Chicago Police Department (CPD). The program was the first 40-hour, five-day law...
Public TechnologiesMaharashtra, India (CNN)Dattu Bhokanal was once terrified of water. Growing up dirt poor in a tiny village in one of the most drought-stricken areas of India, he'd never seen more water than what was in the communal well, and he certainly didn't know how to swim. Until a few months ago, he didn't know what the Olympics was either. But call it irony. Or fate. Bhokanal is the...
CNNVenezuela Food Crisis: The Downward Spiral The current Venezuela food crisis can be attributed to the country’s dependency on its oil reserves over the last thirty to forty years at least, for which the price fluctuated dramatically in the 90’s making the government believe they could continue to sell it at a premium. This led to the souring of trade relationships with...
InquisitrChuraibari: Vehicles stranded at NH 44 which got damaged due to incessant rains at Tripura and Assam border in Churaibari, North Tripura on Friday. (Source: PTI Photo) Fuel crisis continues in Tripura from last 20 days as supply from neighbouring Assam by tankers has almost stopped due to dilapidated condition of the NH 44 in Assam-Tripura border. Most of the filling stations...
Indian Express(Source: New Hampshire Democratic Party ) Says Gatsas' failure to mention opioid crisis in 2015 State of the City speech was 'deplorable' Concord, N.H. - In a radio interview with Concord News Radio's Chris Ryan, Chris Sununu again attacked Ted Gatsas on his response to the opioid crisis. Speaking about the opioid crisis, Sununu told Ryan, 'I was very critical of Mayor Gatsas...
Public Technologies(Source: Daniel Kildee ) July 13, 2016 Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05) today sent a letter to Speaker Paul Ryan (WI-01) calling on him to act immediately to address the ongoing public health crisis in Flint, Mich. before Congress adjourns for a seven week recess. The letter, signed by 137 Members of Congress, comes as the city of Flint remains under a Federal State of Emergency...
Public TechnologiesA crisis (from the Greek κρίσις - krisis; plural: "crises"; adjectival form: "critical") is any event that is, or expected to lead to, an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, group, community or whole society. Crises are deemed to be negative changes in the security, economic, political, societal or environmental affairs, especially when they occur abruptly, with little or no warning. More loosely, it is a term meaning 'a testing time' or an 'emergency event'.
Crisis is the situation of a complex system (family, economy, society) when the system functions poorly, an immediate decision is necessary, but the causes of the dysfunction are not known.
a) situation of a complex system – simple systems do not enter crises. We can speak about a crisis of moral values, an economical or political crisis, but not a motor crisis.
b) poor function. The system still functions, but does not break down.
c) an immediate decision is necessary to stop the further disintegration of the system.
