The 2020 Census is upon us
How to make sure we’re all counted. What’s the best guidance on opioid prescribing? Turnaround time for a Bainbridge poet. And how dangerous are flavored e-cigarettes?
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2020 Census
This winter in a Bering Sea village in Alaska, the census count will officially begin. And although the Supreme Court recently ruled against a question about citizenship, there are still concerns about who is and isn’t counted. Ron Jarmin is deputy director of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Opioid prescriptions
Three years ago, the CDC advised doctors to reduce their opioid prescriptions. But according to researchers, people who came off opioids were three times likelier to die of an overdose in the years that followed. So what should doctors do? Jocelyn James is a doctor at Harborview’s Adult Medicine Clinic and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Washington. Steven Stanos is director of Pain Services and medical director of Occupational Medicine Services at Swedish Health System.
David Guterson, Turn Around Time
Most known and celebrated for his fiction writing, Bainbridge Islands’ David Guterson has been publishing and writing poems of late. His latest is called Turn Around Time: A Walking Poem for the Pacific Northwest.
Michigan bans e-cigarettes
Last week, CDC officials announced a public health crisis driven by the use of vaping products. Following this, Michigan’s governor called for a ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes. Should Washington get tougher too? Kathy Lofy is state health officer from Washington Department of Health.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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