Tag: health care
MOTAA 2.0 Is Not Real Methadone Reform
The Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act (MOTAA) is back. An updated version was reintroduced ...
Oregon Will Close Its Oldest Prison by Building Two, One for “Geriatric” Care
Aliza Kaplan spends most Wednesday nights inside Oregon State Penitentiary, the state’s only maximum-security ...
The Communities We’ve Built in Prison
The informal, prisoner-led writing club at South Central Correctional Facility in Tennessee has a ...
Carceral Health Care Profiteers Keep Evading Responsibility for Harms
In 2018, 40-year-old Wade Jones was arrested in Michigan for shoplifting several bottles of ...
TrumpRx Now Features Generic Meds, Still Doesn’t Lower Drug Prices
President Donald Trump’s direct-to-consumer website for pharmaceutical discounts is expanding significantly. On May 18, ...
Tobacco Harm Reduction Should Be Part of HIV Care
Globally, around 41 million people are living with HIV. And just about everywhere, smoking ...
Senate Committee Weighs “Critical” VA-focused Psychedelics Bill
On April 29, the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee held a hearing to consider the ...
Primary Care “Opioid Risk Scores” Poorly Predict Individual OD Risk
In 2019, Epic—the company behind the MyChart health care software used by over 190 ...
Methadone Clinics to Blame for Unacceptable Drop-Out Rates
Given what the methadone clinic system subjects them to, is it really a surprise ...
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 ...
