Medicine

Policy

How Many Medical Marijuana Patients Are Fakers? Does It Matter?

Jacob Sullum | 8.5.2011 4:44 PM

Politics

Among the Biotech Conventioneers

A dispatch on the value of failed drugs, new vaccines against superbugs, and the prospect of a molecular stethoscope.

Ronald Bailey | 6.28.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

Marcia Angell on 'The Illusions of Psychiatry' (Part II)

Jacob Sullum | 6.24.2011 12:04 PM

Policy

The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything: 20 to 30

Jacob Sullum | 6.23.2011 4:06 PM

Politics

What Will Holder Say About Medical Marijuana?

Jacob Sullum | 6.22.2011 5:20 PM

Policy

Another Victory in Drug Harm Multiplication

Jacob Sullum | 6.22.2011 4:49 PM

Policy

The Government's Top Minds Are Working Hard to Make Painkillers 'Tightly Regulated Yet Easily Available'

Jacob Sullum | 6.15.2011 11:55 AM

Policy

Half of Us Are Mentally Ill (and the Other Half Are Undiagnosed)

Jacob Sullum | 6.13.2011 4:47 PM

Policy

Ends and Means

Suicide is not a medical procedure.

Jacob Sullum | 6.8.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

But Remember: Marijuana Is Not Medicine

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2011 5:29 PM

Policy

Will Comparative Effectiveness Research Kill More People Than It Helps?

Consumers, not bureaucrats, should make healthcare decisions.

Ronald Bailey | 5.24.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

A Fate Worse Than Death Panels?

Legislation that would improve access to pain medication for the elderly is five months behind schedule, and no one will say why.

Mike Riggs | 5.20.2011 10:30 AM

Policy

How the Government Promotes Heroin Use

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2011 4:58 PM

Policy

Could Eating Less Salt Be Deadly?

Jacob Sullum | 5.5.2011 1:01 PM

Policy

Smallpox and Civil Liberties

Damon Root | 4.29.2011 2:20 PM

Policy

Drug Control vs. Pain Control

A crackdown on opioid prescriptions will hurt patients.

Jacob Sullum | 4.27.2011 7:00 AM

Police Abuse

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 4.24.2011 10:00 AM

Politics

From the "Our Government Can't Afford to Spend a Penny Less" Files: Useless New Initiative on Prescription Drugs

Brian Doherty | 4.20.2011 5:38 PM

Policy

O Magazine on the Life-Changing Potential of MDMA

Jacob Sullum | 3.10.2011 11:55 AM

Policy

Yes, You Tend to Get More of Something When You Pay For It: Bone Marrow Edition

Brian Doherty | 3.7.2011 11:17 AM

Policy

Why Would Anyone Object to Government Monitoring of Pain Treatment?

Jacob Sullum | 3.2.2011 11:30 AM

Policy

US Government (Sorta) Reconsiders Poisoning Drug Addicts for their Own Good

Stephen Smith | 1.14.2011 11:54 AM

Policy

'There Is No Definition of a Mental Disorder'

Jacob Sullum | 1.6.2011 1:03 PM

Policy

The Fraud Behind Autism-Vaccination Scares

Nick Gillespie | 1.5.2011 8:36 PM

Policy

The Continuing Saga of Steven Hayne

The latest developments in the story of America's most industrious medical examiner

Radley Balko | 12.6.2010 12:00 PM

Policy

A Simple Way to Improve Medicare

End the "doc fix" and allow balance-billing

Jeffrey A. Singer | 11.25.2010 12:00 PM

Policy

Smoke a Joint, Lose Your Baby?

Jacob Sullum | 11.18.2010 1:52 PM

Policy

Chilling Her Softly

The secret silencing of a pain treatment activist

Jacob Sullum | 11.17.2010 7:00 AM

Policy

Speed 5: This Time for Sure!

Jacob Sullum | 11.16.2010 6:05 PM

Policy

Supreme Court Declines to Hear First Amendment Challenge to an Appeals Court Ruling You Still Can't Read

Jacob Sullum | 11.15.2010 12:23 PM

Policy

The Chilling Effect of Grand Jury Subpoenas (and Secrecy)

Jacob Sullum | 11.10.2010 1:05 PM

Policy

If We Unsealed the Brief, You Might Talk About It

Jacob Sullum | 11.8.2010 12:16 PM

Politics

Will the Third Time Be the Charm for Medical Marijuana in Arizona?

Jacob Sullum | 10.21.2010 5:28 PM

Policy

No Prescription Requirement for Robitussin

Jacob Sullum | 9.14.2010 7:15 PM

Policy

North Carolina Sheriffs Want To Know Who Is Taking Painkillers

Radley Balko | 9.9.2010 4:46 PM

Policy

Tripping Over Robo-Tripping

Jacob Sullum | 9.2.2010 1:22 PM

Policy

The Hazards of Not Drinking

Jacob Sullum | 9.1.2010 1:04 PM

Politics

Is That a Bomb or a Tumor?

Jacob Sullum | 8.25.2010 4:35 PM

Policy

Clinical Study of MDMA Confirms Benefits Noted by Therapists Before It Was Banned

Jacob Sullum | 7.19.2010 4:40 PM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: Surveillance, Lindsay Lohan, and a Sex Tape

Jesse Walker | 7.9.2010 8:08 AM

Policy

Are Guns Medical Devices?

Jacob Sullum | 7.8.2010 2:15 PM

Policy

The Wit & Wisdom of Dr. Donald Berwick, Your New Medicare-Medicaid Jefe

Nick Gillespie | 7.7.2010 5:24 PM

Policy

How You Get 20 Years for a Prescription

Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2010 6:35 PM

Policy

New E-Cig Menace: You Can Put Your Weed in There

Jacob Sullum | 6.23.2010 4:30 PM

Policy

Colorado Explicitly Authorizes Marijuana Dispensaries

Jacob Sullum | 6.7.2010 3:23 PM

Policy

Prohibition Can Cause Flesh to Rot

Jacob Sullum | 6.2.2010 4:42 PM