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• Gaia Pope’s family call for change after inquest highlights missed chances

  15-07-2022 18:30
  
  More than 50 instances, family say, when public services missed opportunities to help Dorset teenagerThe family of the Dorset teenager Gaia Pope have called for fundamental changes to the way the police, health trusts and other public services protect survivors of sexual violence after an inquest highlighted a string of missed chances to help her.Pope’s family have drawn up a list of more than 50 opportunities they say police and health and social care professionals missed to support the 1
  
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• Gaia Pope death: family call for change after inquest highlights missed chances

  15-07-2022 18:30
  
  List drawn up of dozens of instances where family say police and medics missed chances to help teenagerThe family of the Dorset teenager Gaia Pope have called for fundamental changes to the way the police, health trusts and other public services protect survivors of sexual violence after an inquest highlighted a string of missed chances to help her.Pope’s family have drawn up a list of more than 50 opportunities they say police and health and social care professionals missed to support the
  
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• Nonopioid pain prescriptions increased after 2016 CDC guideline, study finds

  15-07-2022 14:50
  After the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a guideline for prescribing opioids to patients experiencing chronic pain in 2016, the prescribing rate of non-opioid pain medication increased each year above and beyond what would be expected based on the preexisting trends, a new study finds. Researchers say the findings suggest more clinicians are carefully considering the risks of prescribing opioids.
  
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