News in Brief Listening to Rural Communities at the Policy-Making Table What might it look like to have governance structures that fuel understanding with rural communities on a larger scale? Hollie Russon-Gilman
Social Justice Why Don’t We Have Better Pain Drugs? The answer involves both biology and economics, but the opioid crisis is forcing us to consider investing more in pain research. Michael White
Economics How Supervised Injection Sites Can Save Cities Money Researchers have released two of the first cost-benefit analyses of supervised injection facilities in U.S. cities. Francie Diep
News in Brief There’s a Drug That Can Prevent Nearly Every Opioid Overdose Death. How Easy Is It to Get in Your State? Pacific Standard looks at naloxone access and Good Samaritan laws nationwide. Francie Diep
News in Brief Assessing Trump’s Promises About Opioids At a recent conference on prescription pill and heroin addiction, a parade of federal agency heads promised new projects—and support from the president. Francie Diep
News in Brief Tom Marino Could Be America’s Next Drug Czar—Here’s His Record on Drug Policy The Pennsylvania congressman has written some bipartisan drug laws while voting extensively against the Affordable Care Act. By… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief 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… Francie Diep
News in Brief 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… Francie Diep
News in Brief 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… Francie Diep
News in Brief Trump to Announce an Opioid Commission President Donald Trump is expected to announce today the launch of a commission devoted to reducing opioid addiction… Pacific Standard Staff