The national opioid prescribing rate started increasing in 2006, with the total number of prescriptions dispensed peaking in 2012 at more than 255 million. Ranging from hydrocodone to oxycodone, opioids bind to receptors in the brain to disrupt pain signals, while at the same time activating reward areas in your brain that produce euphoria-inducing dopamine. The […]
You have subscriptions set up for your razors, contact lenses and groceries. Why not let them take over the tedious portions of home care, as well? Air filter subscription service FilterEasy has closed a $6.9 million Series B1 funding round led by Raleigh-based One Better Ventures with participation from Lead Edge Capital. The capital will be […]
The decades-old multi-level marketing (MLM) and direct selling industry is the original gig economy job — and with the ballooning interest of remote or flexible work, has grown into a nearly $40 billion market. In 2017, more than 20 million Americans worked as network marketers for MLM companies — an estimated one in six households […]
As parents get older, the immediate family must start making decisions about their future care and housing. Often, the first instinct might be to jump to Google for more information but, like many health-related internet searches, the results can be non-specific, confusing, or just flat-out wrong. “As someone with a digital product background from a […]
During a school sustainability-focused hackathon, North Carolina State engineering students Nick Conlon, Hartley LeRoy, Nick Sischo and Goutham Subramanian were taken aback by the lack of efficiency within the waste removal market. Garbage trucks average 2.5 miles per gallon and each burns about $42,000 of fuel a year, but often they’re picking up nearly-empty dumpsters, since they […]