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(Español) Muerte por fentanilo golpea más a los latinos, pero no todo está perdido

(Español) “El acceso al Medical aquí en California puede ayudar a obtener tratamiento para la adicción… pero el acceso puede no ser inmediato y también hay problemas con el reembolso a los proveedores”.

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(Español) Latinos y otras minorías mueren por sobreosis en mayor proporción que los blancos

(Español) Aunque ha habido bastante progreso en el acceso a medicamentos para contrarrestar la adicción, “todavía nos falta bastante camino para descriminalizar y desestigmatizar las adicciones”, sobre todo en las comunidades de color.

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The Opioid Overdose Crisis Hits Latinos.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 PROGRAM # 9917 12:00 PM PT The Opioid Overdose Crisis Hits Latinos. During the COVID-19 pandemic years, prescription opioid-related deaths and ED visits among Latinos experienced a surge. The opioid, mostly fentanyl-related overdose crisis is hitting teenagers particularly hard. While some states are giving people more access to emergency medications like naloxone, […]

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Posted in Coronavirus/COVID-19, Línea Abierta, Health |

(Español) Perdieron su casa con las inundaciones, y FEMA no dio la ayuda que prometió

(Español) “Al llegar a la casa de mi mamá estaba lloviendo, le avisé que tenía que evacuar, y luego comencé tocar como 15 puertas de los vecinos… mi papá tiene demencia… y al dejarlo en el carro, cuando regresé por él ya no estaba, se había bajado del carro y se nos perdió, y lo encontré en un vecindario que no conocía, en la oscuridad”.

Posted in Homepage Feature, Environment |

Extra Edition: Flood Disaster Aid.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 PROGRAM # 9915 11:00 AM PT Extra Edition: Flood Disaster Aid. Heavy winter storms in December and January caused levees to break and rivers to overflow in the San Joaquin Valley and Pajaro Valley, flooding thousands of farm working homes. Those rural communities suffered tens of millions of dollars in damage. Are […]

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Posted in Economy, Línea Abierta, Environment, Politics |

Immigration Edition.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 PROGRAM # 9916 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. Vice President Kamala Harris announced nearly one billion in new private sector investment in Central America to support farmers, create textile jobs, and reduce migration. Will the new jobs encourage people to stay? On a related note, in his State of the Union speech, […]

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Posted in Immigration, Inmigrantes, Línea Abierta, Politics |

(Español) California requiere que hospitales recurran a familiares cercanos de pacientes para decisiones médicas, cerrando un vacío de larga data

(Español) Sólo un tercio de los adultos estadunidenses tiene o bien instrucciones previas, que detallan lo que quieren sobre su atención médica.

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Public Health Agencies Turn to Locals to Extend Reach Into Immigrant Communities

“The pandemic further heightened the importance of work with community-based organizations when governmental entities and their associated messages became hyperpoliticized, and less about health messaging and more about impact of health measures to individual rights and freedoms”.

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Hazard Alerts for Pesticide Spraying.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13 PROGRAM # 9914 12:00 PM PT Hazard Alerts for Pesticide Spraying. As the state of California develops a system that will notify schools and people when a hazardous pesticide is sprayed in neighboring farms, two journalists set out to report on the dramatic human toll that pesticide exposure is having on farm […]

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Posted in Línea Abierta, Environment, Health |

Mexico Edition.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 PROGRAM # 9913 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Remittances to Mexico rose to a new all-time high, reaching nearly $59 billion in 2022, an increase of more than 13 percent over 2021. Remittances, almost entirely sent from the United States, are the main source foreign income for Mexico. Analysts comment on this […]

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Posted in Línea Abierta, Mexico, Politics |

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