California Lawmakers Approve Drug Injection Sites for Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco
Supervised facilities aim to make a dent in the dramatic increase in overdose deaths.
Supervised facilities aim to make a dent in the dramatic increase in overdose deaths.
The agency’s policies would boost the black market and smoking-related deaths.
According to new CDC numbers, the death toll rose 15 percent last year after jumping 30 percent in 2020.
In a move that is likely to undermine public health, the agency warns that products containing synthetic nicotine "will be subject to FDA enforcement."
The agency's obsession with adolescent vaping is driving decisions that undermine public health.
The agency ignores downward trends in both kinds of nicotine use and obscures the huge difference in the hazards they pose.
A spending bill provision would redefine "tobacco products" to include products that have nothing to do with tobacco.
Stranger still, the leading drug policy reform organization supported Schumer's obstruction.
The findings reinforce the case for nicotine vaping products as a harm-reducing alternative to cigarettes.
The perverse provision would have discouraged smokers from switching to a far less hazardous source of nicotine.
Less punitive responses to drug addiction are good, but what about people still stuck in federal prison?
As the U.S. reaches new terrible milestones in overdose deaths, a harm reduction system that has proven itself elsewhere finally launches where it’s needed most.
Cigarette sales rose last year for the first time in two decades, while a survey of high school seniors found they were vaping less but smoking more.
If teenagers like an e-liquid flavor, the agency seems to think, adults should not be allowed to buy it.
The agency seems inclined to ban the vaping products that former smokers overwhelmingly prefer because teenagers also like them.
Although Raja Krishnamoorthi says "adults can do what they want," he is determined not to let them.
E-cigarette regulations and taxes threaten an industry that could prevent millions of premature deaths.
The agency's decisions so far reflect a bias against the flavored e-liquids that former smokers overwhelmingly prefer.
Harm reduction invites a radical reconsideration of the way the government deals with politically disfavored intoxicants.
The war on drugs is not just ineffective; it exacerbates the problems it is supposed to alleviate.
The evolution of Pollan's thinking reflects the confusion caused by arbitrary pharmacological distinctions.
Former Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir says former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb's support for a ban was based on "embarrassingly poor evidence."
An appeals court panel rules the Controlled Substance Act's "crackhouse" provision forbids Safehouse from creating the facility.
The law bans mail delivery of vaping products and requires all vendors to comply with burdensome tax reporting rules.
The agency's scaremongering about e-cigarettes undermined its credibility on the eve of a true public health crisis.
It's an interesting strategy for a president who ran in 2016 on a Nixonian "law and order" platform.
Blame angry neighbors, not the feds.
Federal judge confirms ruling that it doesn’t violate federal “crack house” law.
The Journal of the American Heart Association has responded to critics with nothing but boilerplate promises of scientific integrity.
For now, the FDA is targeting the vaping products that are most popular with teenagers. But the industry still faces a potentially devastating regulatory deadline.
In response to intense opposition from vapers and the industry, the Trump administration has recalibrated its plan.
The government and the press focus on newfangled contraptions instead of drug-related harm.
The Science article is a wake-up call for people who claim to be concerned about smoking-related disease and death.
The agency’s indifference between smoking and vaping is scientifically indefensible.
The ban's supporters falsely claim that "a whole generation of young people" is "addicted to these products."
The FDA finally has agreed to allow a mild statement about the relative hazards of snus and cigarettes.
A safe place meant to help prevent overdose deaths is not the same as a crackhouse.
The data reinforce the point that there is no straightforward relationship between pain pill consumption and overdoses.
Irrational fear of incidental contact with opioids can lead to criminal charges that make overdose bystanders less likely to call 911.
"All we want to do is save some young people from dying needlessly," says former Gov. Ed Rendell, who's on the board of Safehouse, the nation's first supervised injection site to operate out in the open.
Nearly two decades of data from Canada show that such facilities reduce overdose deaths.
Those who continued to smoke cut their cigarette consumption in half.
After a harm reduction advocate slammed a hardy but misleading factoid, users who retweeted his message complained that they had been shadowbanned.
In the name of fighting "the epidemic of youth e-cigarette use," Jerome Adams wants to raise prices and ban indoor vaping.
A GOP candidate claims she's the only person in the race who opposes a life-saving opioid policy, but her Democratic opponent is against it as well.
The Justice Department's opposition to such harm-reducing programs is irrational, unscientific, and inhumane.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein condemns "havens" for drug users, notwithstanding their proven benefits.
Bill de Blasio's plan includes four privately funded and operated "overdose prevention centers" in three boroughs.