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?
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Opioids
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
Trump to Announce an Opioid Commission
President Donald Trump is expected to announce today the launch of a commission devoted to reducing opioid addiction…