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.
People who want to keep the drug czar's office running can't come up with a good reason why.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has announced a slew of regulatory waivers that could expand access to life-saving treatment.
Harm reduction advocates urge Kentucky counties to act before an epidemic occurs.