Precious Cargo review – Vietnam’s ‘operation babylift’ orphans look back | Edinburgh festival 2024
TThe narrator’s accents say it all: you hear Southern English, Australian English, American English and Hebridean English. What they have in common is that they are the adult voices of orphans who were flown out of South Vietnam as part of Operation Babylift at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Placed with families […]
Opioid orphans, Amazon’s not afraid to fail and other commentaries
Drug Surveillance: Opioid Orphans “West Virginia’s opioid epidemic” has created “tens of thousands of ‘grandparent families,’” families in which grandparents are raising children whose parents are addicted, incarcerated or dead. Free Press reporter Olivia Reingold reports.. “In West Virginia, which has the highest opioid overdose death rate in the country, more than half of children […]