When Surgery Leads to a Prescription Painkiller Dependence
How do people become addicted to pain pills? This question has taken on prime importance, as about two…
Snack and Grocery Companies Ask to Put Off New Food Labels
Food manufacturers are looking for more time to finish their homework. In the last year of Barack Obama’s…
Why America’s Wealthiest Men Live 15 Years Longer Than the Country’s Poorest
The gap in income between America’s richest and poorest is larger now than it’s ever been since the…
Trump Complains the FDA Is Slow, but It’s Already Faster to Approve Drugs Than Its Counterpart
The issue of whether the Food and Drug Administration approves new medicines fast enough has taken on a…
Five Things You Need to Know About America’s Fentanyl Epidemic
Fentanyl, the painkiller that’s more powerful than morphine, oxycodone, and heroin, has become an especially worrisome chapter in…
How States’ Medicaid Policies Expose Poor People to a Deadly Painkiller
Of all the prescriptions doctors wrote for opioid painkillers in 2014, only 1 percent were for methadone. Yet…
The Changing Face of American Heroin Users
The fact that more Americans are using heroin now than they were 15 years ago has been extensivelycovered.…
This Week in Controversial Environmental Laws
Two important regulations dealing with environmental protection and science are expected to move through the federal government this…
What It’s Like When Your Federal Agency Disappears
Robert Cook-Deegan felt a shudder of recognition when he saw the news earlier this month that the White…
What Trump’s Budget Means for America’s Opioid Epidemic
Last week, President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled its “blueprint budget“— a less-detailed version of the budget it’ll eventually send…