In July 2019, I took a taxi from Whitechapel to Heathrow. My driver Rizwan and I sat in bleary 5am-silence for a while, before he opened with the customary “Where you off to then?”…
All by Krishna Sruthi Vydyula
Barts in the Sp(O2)light
Take a deep breath in. And hold.
Heart racing, a tightness in your chest, and eventually, loss of consciousness. Such is the power of oxygen; we are entirely dependent on it for mass production of the Adenosine Triphosphate molecule, involved in providing energy for everything from muscle contraction to hormone production.
The USA’s Opioid Crisis Explained
From 2014 to 2017, life expectancy in the USA decreased for three consecutive years, a pattern unseen since World War Two. A major contributor: increasing deaths from opioid substance abuse.