On November 13, JUUL Labs, the company behind America's most popular vaping product, announced a stringent new online age-verification system.…
Insys—the pharmaceutical company investigated for its unethical fentanyl marketing tactics in the midst of the opioid crisis—has been planning to…
On October 30, the DEA announced that Pharma company Insys Therapeutics filed in August for approval to manufacture “marihuana” and “Tetrahydrocannabinols” (THC) in…
[Christopher Moraff pens the DISPATCHES column for Filter.] On October 24, President Donald Trump signed a package of bills into law…
If you're in the US, you may not have heard of captagon—an understudied synthetic drug recreationally popular and widely traded…
The state-by-state concentration of health insurance claim lines associated with opioid “abuse” and dependence is visualized in the above infographic…
President Trump has just penned an op-ed for USA Today, in which he rants against Bernie Sanders' "Medicare-for-all" plan, claiming that "The…
“That can’t be right, marijuana is legal here.” It's a common refrain from would-be cannabis entrepreneurs, initially filled with enthusiasm—only…
The media frenzy against Juul, the US market leader in vaping products, is on steroids—and this feeds directly into actions…
Fifteen years ago, with an EMT colleague and an armed police officer, I arrived as a novice 25-year-old paramedic to…