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Carol Larson

When Solving One Problem Creates Another DrugsHealthPublic Safety

When Solving One Problem Creates Another

New restrictions reducing availability of opioids leave seniors in pain

"When we think about the more than 68-thousand people who overdosed last year, we often imagine young heroin addicts found dead in their cars, or veterans over-medicated on OxyContin. We rarely think of Grandma with her bad back and doctor-prescribed pain pills," Carol Larson writes. She shares how new policies attempting to curb the opioid epidemic leave seniors grappling with extreme pain.

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Carol Larson
September 5, 2019
That’s so Soviet! CommunismDemocracyEducationInternationalPoliticsSoviet Union

That’s so Soviet!

Is authoritarian-style governance becoming the American way?

Journalist Carol Larson and her husband lived, traveled and worked in the former USSR for several years before returning to the United States. Recently, they've noticed some worrying parallels between today's increasingly authoritarian-style governance and classic Soviet thinking. One example: carrying on a political plan regardless of the inconvenient reality.

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Carol Larson
October 11, 2017
The Retiree Revolution AgingRetirement

The Retiree Revolution

'Some of us are ticked off '

Carol Larson is newly retired and already she is "ticked off" by the stubborn stereotypes foisted on her and other retirees. Stereotypes like retirees are old and decrepit, and "worst of all, that when a person retires we will never make another meaningful contribution to the world ever again," Larson writes. She says people have it all wrong.

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Carol Larson
March 29, 2014
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