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Shingles (Herpes Zoster) A painful, blistering viral disease that adults over 50 are prone to have, having had chicken pox as a child (the virus may remain inactive in nerve cells: reactivation of varicella zoster virus). Source and website for you to look at for more information: https:// www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/shingles/news/20180212/newshingles-vaccine_what-you-need-to-know • A new vaccine called Shingrix, offered in early 2018 is more than 90% effective at preventing shingles and a painful complication called postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) in all age groups.

Opioid addiction is the biggest drug epidemic in the United States. A rise of pain killer prescriptions from providers and a pharmaceutical industry eager to boost sales, sparked a wave of this addiction that shot up by almost 500 percent in the last 15 years. The numbers are staggering. Almost half-a-million Americans have died in the last 15 years from an overdose, and the majority of those involve opioids. On average, 91 Americans are still dying every single day.