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Tamera Mason deals with four competing autoimmune diseases everyday, and her service dog Irene helps her stay on top of things.“She is a diabetic and Addison trained dog,” Mason said.Addison’s Disease is a disorder in which the body doesn’t produce enough hormones. It can be life threatening.“She has kept me safe,” Mason said. “And instead of having an Addison crisis about every six weeks, now in a year and a half I’ve only have two ICU visits. Both of which she predicted and was able to alert me for.”Dogs can learn to “alert” their owners when they smell a certain trigger, like low blood sugar, if properly trained. Irene bumps Mason’s leg.“Irene is 20 to 30 minutes ahead of when the glucose monitor said I was in trouble,” Mason said.Given Mason’s condition and her full time job at an emergency department, it can make all the difference. “I have been very blessed with a dog who truly has superpowers,” Mason said.She got Irene from a nonprofit called Service Dogs of Virginia. They train dogs with different skills based on the future owner’s needs. “We don’t train the dogs to smell the odor, they do that because they’re dogs and they have a nose. What we do is train them to tell us when they smell that odor,” Peggy Law, the founder of the organization, said.Law calls them "toddlers with superpowers. She saw the need for service dogs in her community, saying the demand grew enormously. With that demand comes more businesses entering the industry, but not always for the right reasons. Service dog companies and trainers are not monitored or regulated by any government agency. Instead, a nonprofit coalition has formed in its place.“We are really regarded as the global leaders of the industry for setting standards,” Chris Diefenthaler, the executive director of Assistance Dogs International (ADI), said.ADI has come up with its own peer-review accreditation process to help combat fraud.“It is a very thorough, comprehensive evaluation,” Diefenthaler said.ADI had 273 member organizations worldwide in 2018. In that year, they helped place more than 7,700 service dogs, four percent were diabetic alert dogs. Irene was trained through an ADI-accredited facility.“We have a reasonable sense of when I go to bed at night, being able to wake up,” Mason said.Some aren’t so lucky.“We found out he had skin issues which ended up being from autoimmune diseases from being overbred,” Michelle Ninstant said. Ninstant was desperate to find ways to help her son who had just been diagnosed with diabetes, and heard how service dogs could help.“My son, Zack Johnson, was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes back in 2012,” she explained. “He was very brittle, so no matter how much we gave him to carb him up and bring his sugars up he could drop 20, 30 seconds after that.”She found a company selling service dogs, with a price tag of ,000. After waiting nine months, she received Alan, a 13-week-old service dog who was supposed to come with basic training. Within days, Alan was shoeing troubling symptoms, and still had not learned the basics like “sit” or “stay”.“While we’re trying to learn about diabetes in general and then add a service dog onto it, add my sons health issues onto it,” the mother explained. “He’s part of your family so you just don’t want to send him back.”She said in the first year alone, vet bills totaled close to ,000 as they figured out what was causing Alan’s skin and immunity problems.Ninstant ended up training Alan herself with some help, and on multiple occasions Alan helped save Zack.But six years later, you can still see Alan struggle with skin problems and itching.“Alan’s part of our family,” Michelle said.Service Dogs of Virginia keeps up with their clients every year. “We want to make sure they’re doing all the things that they need to to make sure the dog is working well,” Law said.While Law said a service dog isn’t the right solution for everyone, there are ways to make sure you are buying from a trustworthy organization. “I think you have to ask a lot of questions,” she said. 4059

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Smoking has been a lifelong habit for Pete Quinto.“Since I was 21,” he said. “I’m 53.”He lives in New Jersey, a state where the tax on cigarettes is just under a pack, but it could be higher.“I know New York’s pretty high,” Quinto said.New Jersey may soon be, as well. The governor is proposing a state cigarette tax of .35 a pack, placing it on par with New York and Connecticut as one of the highest cigarette taxes in the nation.The very highest? Washington D.C., at .50 a pack. Yet, cigarette taxes vary wildly across the country. The lowest is in Missouri: a mere 17 cents per pack. Others include 30 cents in Virginia, 84 cents in Colorado and .33 in Florida.“Raising taxes is the quickest way to reduce tobacco, particularly among young people and the poor, whom the tobacco industry preys,” said Matthew Myers, who heads up The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.He said there is a direct link between higher cigarette taxes and lower smoking rates.“The advantage of tobacco taxes is they reduce tobacco use more effectively, more efficiently and more predictably than any other single tactic, while also raising revenue for government,” Myers said.Yet, critics have pointed out that lower-income smokers get hit the hardest by taxes like these and a U.S. Surgeon General report earlier this year, found they have the least access to programs to help them quit.Still, at least one academic study, “Tax Burden on Tobacco,” shows the connection between higher taxes and lower smoking rates. It looked at the price of cigarettes and their sales from 1970 to 2017. The findings? The higher the cigarette price, the fewer packs sold.“In an ideal world we would be down to zero,” Myers said. “We’re a long way from there.Back in New Jersey, Pete Quinto said if the tax goes up as much as proposed, he might finally quit.“Most definitely,” he said. “I’m not paying all that money.” New Jersey has not raised its cigarette sales tax in a decade. The proposal would raise an extra 8 million a year in the state. 2030

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Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise across the country. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found combined cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia reached an all-time high in the United States in 2018.In Humboldt County, California, health officials say sexually transmitted diseases have been on the rise for five years in a row. “We went from 434 chlamydia cases in 2014 to 790 in 2018,” said Hava Phillips of Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services. “But last year, we saw sharper spike in HIV and syphilis.”We’re learning Humboldt County’s STD statistics mirror national numbers. According to the CDC, from 2017 to 2018, gonorrhea cases increased 5 percent to more than 580,000 cases.During the same time, reported chlamydia cases increased 3 percent to more than 1.7 million cases – that’s the most ever reported to CDC.And perhaps the most concerning number: syphilis cases among newborns increased 40 percent to more than 1,300 cases.“No one has boyfriends and girlfriends anymore; it’s like major hook up culture,” one Humboldt County man said. “That could be one reason why we are having higher STDs now.” With the reasons ranging from more people getting tested to fewer people using condoms, cuts to public health services and online dating are thought to be a big factors as well.“We are seeing changes cultural attitudes towards sex,” Phillips said. “We are seeing the availability of things like social networking applications that allow for meeting anonymous partners more easily.”To help slow down the spread of STDs, Humboldt County Health is spreading their message both online and in person with coasters warning people about the increase in STDs. “The idea was to make sure that people were aware that we were seeing an increase in syphilis cases and they can protect themselves better,” Phillips said. And in this small city that’s seeing big problems, they say the only sure way to stay safe is to be safe. 1999

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