On May 8, pharmaceutical company Gilead quietly announced that it will relinquish its exclusive patent on Truvada for HIV pre-exposure…
Three widely distributed stories from the past couple of months illustrate the profound ways in which the media perpetuates harmful…
The Florida legislature passed legislation within the past week, Senate Bill 540 and House Bill 851, to establish a public…
Last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved IQOS, a device that delivers nicotine by heating, not burning, tobacco…
Medication for anything only works if the patient takes enough. This is emphatically true for people taking medications for opioid…
Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), a nonprofit research organization, poses a simple question for officials pushing for jail expansion that could…
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Katherine was on the subway home from a meeting with her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor when it hit. They had just…
Funding for harm reduction interventions in Maine received a much-needed boost on February 6. Newly-elected Governor Janet Mills signed an executive…
For Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror go hand-in-hand. And the Easter…