Opioid Death Rates Are Not Correlated With Prescription Rates Across States
More reason to doubt that pain pill restrictions will save lives
More reason to doubt that pain pill restrictions will save lives
Like state legislators, the chain is taking its cue from the CDC's guidelines.
The former V.A. nominee was charged with distributing sleeping pills and stimulants that helped people do their jobs.
Bob Dole's magical pill changed the way Americans think about sickness and treatment.
The government's efforts to get between people and the drugs they want have not prevented drug use, but they have made it more dangerous.
Making drug-company shareholders foot the bill for a public health crisis is flaky and counterproductive.
Restricted distribution is a barrier to generic competition.
The change would put D.C. in line with a rapidly rising number of states allowing pharmacist-prescribed oral contraceptives.
The prospect of cheap Canadian meds is once again captivating policymakers.
Expect more raids and more arrests.
Did a small number of complaints get used to punish bureaucracy-rejecting physician?
At the government's behest, hospitals trash nearly a billion dollars worth of perfectly safe and effective medicines every year.
A new push to imprison those who prescribe too many opioids
Yet the DEA wants to ban it.
In contrast, the mortality rate for college-educated whites continues to fall.
Americans would save some money now, but at the long-run cost of sicker and shorter lives
An estimated 111,000 excess premature deaths occurred in white individuals between 1999 and 2014
At Planned Parenthood clinics, 43 percent of all abortions are now drug-induced, not surgical.
Some things won't change no matter who wins the 2016 election.
As if fentanyl's public relations aren't bad enough.
Capitalism isn't to blame. It's the exact opposite.
Prescription painkillers are not as deadly or as addictive as commonly claimed.
Following hour long town hall pushing opioid use hysteria
Meanwhile: The hunt is on to find somebody to blame for Prince's death.
Is there any way to stop the abuse of the word 'epidemic'?
Around 100 women have been charged under the 2014 law so far.
In the government's new war on opiates, physicians and their patients find themselves caught in the crossfire.
A push to fight painkiller abuse may do more harm than good.
To shrink the supply of opioids, the agency encourages doctors to be suspicious and stingy.
The Texas senator says "we will end this deluge of drugs" by securing the border.
Another GOP-led bill to decouple birth-control pills from doctors shows contraception is losing luster in the culture wars.
But even after adjustment, the death rate trend for white middle-aged American women is still rising
The new guidelines on alcohol consumption for young women are silly, but the CDC has been issuing similar rules for years.
States are moving to make contraception more accessible, with the charge being led by Republican men.
Pro football lives on massive consumption of painkillers, but still bans therapeutic use of pot.
It's time to rethink the stigma surrounding this "performance-enhancing drug."
The freedom to set prices free of government coercion makes for better newspapers and better medicine.
How the government promotes deaths from drug poisoning
How prohibition promotes drug poisoning
Only the handicapper general would do such a thing.
The vast reach of government as a payer for health care means that drug companies are to a large degree government contractors, and patients are suffering.
Dave Huntley was a father, husand, & triathlete who contracted Lou Gehrig's Disease. But the FDA was his biggest foe.