Author: Melanie Adams

Drug abuse in the U.S is has reached alarming levels in the U.S with an average of 115 people dying every day due to opioid overdose. This has raised concerns, especially from the government with the situation being deemed a national crisis. Part of the reason why so many people are dying is due to the ease of availability of opioids which include illegal hard drugs such as heroin, prescription drugs, and even synthetic opioids. The opioid crisis has been labeled a national crisis not only because of the high number of deaths that it has been causing but...

Over 40,000 villagers have been displaced as Philippines’ most active volcano spew red-hot lava plus massive ash plumes in an increasingly dangerous eruption. Many people who were displaced have been moved o evacuation centers. Fountains of lava gushed up 700 meters above the crater of Mount Mayon crater and ash plumes went up to 3 kilometers at night. This is according to an update released by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. The most powerful explosion was witnessed on Monday. The country’s authorities have warned of the possibility of a violent eruption in the coming days with more...