Kastalia Medrano 
Mortality Rate for LA’s Unhoused Residents Drops for the First Time
For the first time in the decade that the Los Angeles County Department of ...
FDA Eyeing “Drug Disposal” Products, for Destroying Rx Opioids at Home
The Food and Drug Administration is asking the public to weigh in on the ...
CDC Identifies Specific Drugs Most Frequently Cited in Overdose Deaths
On March 5, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a published a National Vital ...
No, Synthetic Opioid Cychlorphine Has Not Proved Narcan “Ineffective”
A minor media frenzy has been forming around cychlorphine, a novel synthetic opioid described ...
DEA Permanently Bans Five Benzos, the First to Be Placed in Schedule I
On March 2, the Drug Enforcement Administration published a final rule permanently scheduling five ...
Oklahoma Weighs “Repeat Offender” Law for Drug Use During Pregnancy
Oklahoma is considering a bill that would increase the state’s authority to intervene when ...
Pressured by Fentanyl Deaths, County Coroner Laws Evolve in Weird Ways
Legislators in Indiana have unanimously advanced a bill that proposes an unusual solution to ...
Illinois HOPE Act Would “Codify Harm Reduction” and Housing-First
Illinois is considering a wide-ranging harm reduction bill that advocates believe may have traction ...
FDA Drops Drug-Approval Standard From Two Controlled Trials to One
The Food and Drug Administration will no longer expect pharmaceutical manufacturers to submit two ...
Audit: Widespread Failures in Federal Prisons’ Use of Halfway House System
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is not only continuing to incarcerate people past ...
