Tag: Drugs

Pharmaceutical companies vying for public sector spending will compete for positive attention and attempt to shape public opinion. (AP Photo/Carla K. Johnson)

Don’t let opioid treatment turn into a partisan issue

Matt Mossburg · January 18, 2018 5:01 am

Hunger? Or Just the Munchies?

The Scrapbook · December 15, 2017 9:00 am

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement that "[a]s a physician and a parent, I'm deeply troubled by the unlawful marketing of these potentially dangerous products, especially since they are so easily accessible by minors." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FDA moves to end snortable chocolate, calling it ‘street drug alternative’

Steven Nelson · December 13, 2017 5:14 pm

Congressional investigators posed as first-time buyers of fentanyl and found six online sellers able to easily ship the drug from overseas to the U.S. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Amount of fentanyl seized at border last year was 742 times the 2013 rate

Anna Giaritelli · December 5, 2017 4:53 pm

New DEA field office opening in Kentucky to deal with opioids

Kelly Cohen · November 29, 2017 6:11 pm

Bitcoin Is Still Dead

Jonathan V. Last · November 27, 2017 4:48 pm

If we want to effectively end this public health emergency, we must invest in first responders. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

The opioid crisis, on the front lines

Dale Sutherland · November 27, 2017 5:01 am

The top senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee asked for responses from the State Department, the Postal Service, and the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Senators ask for details on opioid shipments through the mail

Kimberly Leonard · November 22, 2017 4:54 pm

The analysis made public health recommendations for states to consider. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

Death from drugs, alcohol, suicide could rise 60 percent or more in the next decade

Kimberly Leonard · November 21, 2017 5:02 pm

"For everyone we communicate with, it's like pouring salt in a wound," Amy Povah, a clemency recipient who founded Can-Do Clemency to advocate for other federal drug offenders, said about the turkey pardons. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Inmates ask Trump to pardon people alongside turkeys

Steven Nelson · November 20, 2017 5:01 am

Discarded syringes lay near near train tracks in Philadelphia, Monday, July 31, 2017. According to the Council of Economic Advisers report, more than 50,000 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2015, of which 63 percent reportedly involved opioids. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

White House puts the cost of the opioid crisis at $504 billion in 2015

Kelly Cohen · November 20, 2017 12:00 am

Kratom tastes like green tea when it's brewed and sometimes is taken as a pill. (AP Photo/Mary Esch, File)

Kratom, a possible heroin treatment, faces unclear fate after FDA warning

Steven Nelson · November 14, 2017 7:54 pm