This toolkit is intended to help state legislators (and others) interested in addressing the opioid epidemic in the U.S. The toolkit was jointly developed by HealthyWomen and the Legal Action Center and is partially based upon a presentation we made at a Women in Government Conference in June 2018. The opioid epidemic has many components and causes. To address it requires multiple approaches and collaborations. Each region, state and community must consider its own situation in developing and implementing plans Healthy

For some people, the holiday season can be a tangle of complicated emotions. It’s often especially so for those spending the holidays with family because families can be tricky, not to mention that we’re still in a global pandemic — and those are pretty tricky, too. What makes it all worse? Not taking care of yourself and your mental health as you navigate some of the thorny issues that can arise — like Covid-19 vaccinations — and the delicate relationships Healthy

By Deborah Fuller, University of Washington If the omicron variant of the coronavirus is different enough from the original variant, it’s possible that existing vaccines won’t be as effective as they have been. If so, it’s likely that companies will need to update their vaccines to better fight omicron. Deborah Fuller is a microbiologist who has been studying mRNA and DNA vaccines for over two decades. Here she explains why vaccines might need to be updated and what that process Healthy