Social Issues

Addiction medicine mostly prescribed to whites, even as opioid deaths rose in blacks
A study looked at who gets prescriptions for buprenorphine, and found that white patients are almost 35 times more likely to get the lifesaving addiction treatment than African Americans.
Minneapolis officials ordered to court in Jamar Clark case
A federal judge has ordered Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other city officials to appear in court Wednesday for a status report on the lawsuit filed by the family of Jamar Clark, who was killed by police during a confrontation in November 2015.
'No visible bruises' upends stereotypes of abuse, sheds light on domestic violence
An average of four women are killed by their partners every day in America. Crisis center CEO Suzanne Dubus and writer Rachel Louise Snyder talk about how to help women leave abusive relationships.
Reporter's notebook: Another baby, another dramatic labor, two happy outcomes
Because the nearest hospital in Grand Marais had stopped deliveries, Yvette and Tamer Ibrahim endured a four-hour drive through a blizzard to a hospital in Duluth. For their second baby's birth, they devised a plan that would allow for a home birth in Duluth, a short drive from a fully equipped obstetrics unit. It didn't turn out that way.
Philando Castile's mother wipes out school lunch debt, continuing son's legacy
Three years after the shooting death of Philando Castile, his legacy of helping others continues. Valerie Castile's $8,000 gift to a Minnesota high school wiped out lunch debts for about 100 students.
Plaintiffs want UnitedHealth to review denied mental health claims
The attorneys who sued UnitedHealth Group for too aggressively denying coverage for behavioral health care want the judge who sided with them to force the company to reprocess denied claims under less restrictive coverage guidelines.