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Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet: Native Communities Can Safely Dispose of Unused Drugs This Saturday
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Melissa Skeet recounted the night she fled into the dark, wooded hill behind her apartment in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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Dr. Donald Warne, Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health and Director of the Center’s Great Plains Hub, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)—one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
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States are scrambling to implement changes, and the federal shutdown is further threatening benefits.
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A culturally grounded parenting program is helping Native families across Indian Country break cycles of trauma and heal generational wounds.
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If the federal government shutdown extends into November, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—which oversees the food stamp program—will exhaust its funding, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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Despite Indian Country bearing some of the highest fatality rates of the overdose crisis, there is a woefully insufficient number of programs that provide clean needles in Indian Country to reduce death and the spread of disease.
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The Indian Health Service (IHS) has appointed Clayton Fulton, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, as its new chief of staff. In this role, Fulton will oversee the coordination of key agency functions and provide vital support to the Office of the Director in implementing IHS initiatives and strategic priorities.
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Tribes and tribal facilities decide which traditional services to offer for Medicaid reimbursement.
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