Drugs + Money
Leading US Nicotine-Consumer Voice Falls Silent
Nicotine consumers who have made life-changing switches to safer products, and their organizations, form ...
Feds Share Prison Contraband Data They May Not Have Thought Through
The United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) has released a report on sentencing for contraband ...
Montana Governor Vetoes Proposal for Tribes to Enter Cannabis Compacts
A Montana proposal that would have allowed tribal nations to negotiate cannabis regulation individually ...
Governments “Hate” Big Tobacco—Yet Hand Them the Nicotine Market
Around the world, politicians love to stand behind a podium, look solemnly into a ...
Judge Rejects Baltimore’s $5.2 Billion Lawsuit Request to Address OD Crisis
A judge has rejected Baltimore’s request for $5.2 billion in abatement money in a ...
The Golden Age of Doctor-Shopping
In 2012, right before prescription drug-monitoring programs (PDMP) shut everything down, I was seeing ...
Walgreens Settles DOJ Prescription Opioid Lawsuit, Likely at $350 Million
Walgreens, the nation’s second-largest pharmacy chain, will pay $300 million plus 4 percent interest ...
Michael Bloomberg Won His Vietnam War on Vaping
Vietnam has a big-time smoking problem. A huge proportion of men, particularly—44.3 percent, by ...
Mexico’s Lawsuit Against US Gunmakers Reaches Supreme Court
Do gun manufacturers in the United States bear responsibility for thousands of murders by ...
“It’s Very Real”—Harm Reduction Research Facing DOGE Funding Cuts
As Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) take a chainsaw to federal ...
