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  7 graphics on kids and guns in the Seattle area

  Sixty-eight kids died by gun between 2017 and 2022 in King County. That's like three classrooms wiped out.

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  Tacoma TB patient eludes authorities

  Soundside host Libby Denkmann talks to Matt Driscoll of the News Tribune in Tacoma about the person with a confirmed case of tuberculosis who has evaded authorities for over a year.
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  We don't know enough about fentanyl

  Washington state topped a list you do not want to be on last week: We are tied for the fastest increase in overdose deaths in the country. Deaths are up across the US, mostly due to the very deadly fentanyl. But there’s more going on than just a new opioid. National Public Radio Addiction correspondent Brian Mann explains who is being impacted here, and what might help.
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  A robot answers questions about health. Its creators just won a $2.25 million prize

  At the Skoll World Forum this week, South Africa's Reach Digital Health was one of five honorees. They offer health advice via mobile phones to millions, focusing on pregnancy, babies and COVID.

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  'Live free and die'? The sad state of U.S. life expectancy

  A decade after a landmark report on Americans' shorter lives, the problem has only gotten worse. Unlike other wealthy nations, U.S. life expectancy has not bounced back from the pandemic.

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  Washington's next drug law could let accused choose treatment, services over jail time

  The Washington State Senate has passed a bill that would boost criminal penalties for drug possession but allow people to avoid jail if they engage in treatment and services.
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  Increasing overdose deaths stress King County morgue

  King County is experiencing a grim indicator of how bad the opioid crisis has become — a lack of space to store bodies. Public Health Director Faisal Khan said the Medical Examiner's office has finite space in the coolers they use, and that space is being exceeded on a regular basis.

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  3,000+ young children accidentally ate weed edibles in 2021, study finds

  The cases of accidental ingestion of cannabis candies and baked goods among small children increased 1,375% in five years, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics.
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  Short on community health workers, a county trains teens as youth ambassadors

  In Fairfax County, Va., the health department is training high school students to become health ambassadors in underserved communities and get a leg up on future careers in public health.
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  Taking stock of WA state’s decade of legal cannabis, and what to expect next

  November 2022 marked a decade since Washington voted to legalize recreational cannabis. There was a lot of fanfare — and uncertainty — when voters set the state on this path back in 2012. So what are the big takeaways about our legal cannabis market so far?

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