Out of the frying pan and into the fire: The gas stove toxicity debate Jeremy MacMahon, Chelsea Unkel and Pamela J. Lein from the University of California, Davis, unpack household air pollution, focusing on the gas stove toxicity debate. Recent comments by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission about regulating gas stoves have triggered significant public debate in the United States (U.S.) about the harmful effects of gas stoves on human health. So, what is the science surrounding this issue?

The fentanyl crisis: Death at the end of the rainbow Chelsea Unkel, Ryan Hogans, & Pamela Lein from the University of California, Davis, analyse the fentanyl crisis responsible for increases in drug overdose across the US. It is currently estimated that in the U.S., 136 people die every day from an overdose of prescribed or illicit opioids, with fentanyl representing the predominant drug involved in these cases. As stated by U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Administrator Anne Milgram, "Fentanyl is the single deadliest drug threat our nation has ever encountered". And this public health crisis has spread well beyond the U.S.