Kastalia Medrano 
CDC: Overdose Deaths Now Down 24 Percent, Back to Pre-Pandemic Crisis
An estimated 86,882 people in the United States died of overdose between October 2023 ...
White House Reviews Its Drug Control Strategy, Finds It’s Doing a Good Job
In 2022 the White House Office of National Drug Control Strategy (ONDCP) published its ...
DOJ Sues CVS, Alleging “Massive Public Harm” From Opioid Dispensing
The Department of Justice is accusing CVS Pharmacy Inc. of unlawfully filling opioid prescriptions ...
The “Reemergence” of Carfentanil
Proponents of the Controlled Substances Act like to characterize fentanyl analogs as more potent and ...
Why Would the Temporary Class-Wide Fentanyl Bans Ever Expire?
Six years after the Drug Enforcement Administration issued a two-year temporary order placing fentanyl-related ...
US Appeals Court Blocks Securus, Pay Tel Bids to Stall Prison Call Rate Caps
The landmark Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations poised to bring down costs of phone ...
CBP Rolls Out Mildly Surprising Workforce Naloxone Policy
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has implemented its first internal policy covering staff access ...
FDA Reports Largest-Ever Seizure of Unregulated Nicotine Vapes
On October 22, the Food and Drug Administration announced what appears to be the ...
Feds Say Vapes, and Not Abstinence, Research Priority for Smoking Harms
In a call for innovation to reduce the public health harms of smoking, the ...
SAMHSA-Backed Toolkit Introduces Harm Reduction to Families, Caregivers
The National Family Support Technical Assistance Center (NFSTAC) has curated a “Family & Caregiver ...
