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Ellen Eldridge

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I’m the senior health care reporter at NPR’s statewide member station @gpbmedia.bsky.social Opinions based on facts. EEldridge@GPB.org

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share this post with five friends and you will receive 25 kabillion reactions and maybe even some hate mail

11.03.2026 17:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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dear diary. today is my 15-day streak #wordle

11.03.2026 04:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How Georgia might legislate nonprofit recovery community organizations and define certified peers Substance use disorder is characterized by continued substance use despite harmful consequences like criminal charges, hospitalization and the threat of death. It remains one of the world’s greatest p...

Georgia became the first state to receive Medicaid reimbursement for peer support services, allowing peer specialists to be funded as part of behavioral health rehabilitation services.
HB 657 defines recovery community organizations.

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10.03.2026 22:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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two weeks of not F-ing up Wordle

10.03.2026 13:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Graph depicting opioid overdose deaths from 2004 to 2024. The graph includes three lines: total drug overdoses (dark blue), opioids (purple), and non-opioids (green). All lines rise sharply until peaking around 2021, then declining in 2024. Lines show total overdoses higher than opioids, which are higher than non-opioids. Data source: KFF analysis of CDC WONDER files.

Graph depicting opioid overdose deaths from 2004 to 2024. The graph includes three lines: total drug overdoses (dark blue), opioids (purple), and non-opioids (green). All lines rise sharply until peaking around 2021, then declining in 2024. Lines show total overdoses higher than opioids, which are higher than non-opioids. Data source: KFF analysis of CDC WONDER files.

Opioid overdose deaths fell sharply from 2023 to 2024 (79,358 to 54,045), driven largely by decreases in fentanyl-involved deaths.

Even after these declines, deaths remained above 2019, the year before opioid deaths increased sharply during the pandemic. https://on.kff.org/4sumABw

09.03.2026 19:19 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
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Georgia-based employers study mental health parity and employer leverage at Carter Center The Carter Center is launching its Mental Health Parity & Business series Thursday, March 12, for employers around Georgia.

Studies have shown that depression can cause an average productivity dip of 35%, meaning when someone struggles with clinical depression, they lose almost two days of work productivity a week. That's why it's important to recognize and advocate for.

www.gpb.org/news/2026/03...

09.03.2026 19:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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coulda had it in 2 but didn’t. day 13

09.03.2026 09:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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dozen day streak

08.03.2026 11:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

if you’re bothered by the fact that a white man in power enslaved and raped other human beings, i have some disappointing news.

07.03.2026 14:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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took me waaaaaaaaaay too long to get this

07.03.2026 14:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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that’s 10

06.03.2026 12:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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05.03.2026 06:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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There's a growing number of black vulture deaths by bird flu. That worries UGA researchers University of Georgia researchers tested 134 dead black vultures from seven Southeast states including Georgia. They found more than 84% tested positive for bird flu.

we might have to start eating our own roadkill www.gpb.org/news/2026/03...

04.03.2026 21:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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phew! almost blew my 8-day streak

04.03.2026 11:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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one week of streak. best was 150

03.03.2026 11:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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day 5

02.03.2026 11:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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5-day streak

01.03.2026 12:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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day 4

28.02.2026 10:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wonka Wash!

28.02.2026 00:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wellroot opens 2 new behavioral health clinics in Georgia as 'vaccine' against mental illness The centers in Tucker and Gainesville also provide psychiatric care, counseling and teach clients life skills.

Two new behavioral health centers are open in Georgia
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28.02.2026 00:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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27.02.2026 05:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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day 2 of new streak

26.02.2026 08:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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one day streak

25.02.2026 05:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Negative childhood experiences increase risk of obesity, UGA study shows A University of Georgia study on the impact of adverse child experiences suggests clinicians should screen children as part of an annual physical and address risk factors early on.

Researchers with University of Georgia’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences examined whether stressors or traumatic events that happen in childhood are associated with weight gain. @gpbmedia.bsky.social www.gpb.org/news/2026/02...

24.02.2026 21:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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WGN-TV lays off eight on-air reporters and anchors Monday in massive downsizing Sean Lewis, a nearly two-decade veteran who has anchored the weekend morning broadcast since 2010, was among those laid off.

The ax is falling at WGN-Ch. 9, cutting a wide swath out of “Chicago’s Very Own” TV newsroom. Eight veteran reporters and anchors were laid off Monday, according to newsroom sources.

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Nooooo! my streak hath ended 😩

24.02.2026 14:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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38 is gr8

23.02.2026 12:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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37!!!! ugh so long til i possibly beat 150-day streak 😩

22.02.2026 05:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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22.02.2026 02:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Where do you climb from rock bottom? State senate mulls sober living and recovery housing in Georgia Sober housing organizations are places where people with substance use disorder can live as they work toward independence. A new Georgia Senate study has recommendations on how the state might regulat...

Sober housing organizations are places where people with substance use disorder can live as they work toward independence.

www.gpb.org/news/2026/01...

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