Tag: health care
UK Program Will Pay People to Quit Smoking During Pregnancy
Pregnant people will be offered vouchers worth up to £400 (almost $500) to quit ...
“Where They’re At”—Harm Reduction in Rural America
On a warm winter night, a small group of harm reduction workers in Charleston, ...
We Emergency Doctors Must Get Better at Offering Buprenorphine
An emergency department provider is a jack of all trades. The ED is open ...
NZ Hospital Leads the Way by Giving Vapes to Patients Who Smoke
The Whanganui District Health Board (DHB) has announced that its hospital on New Zealand’s ...
First-of-Its-Kind Lawsuit Demands Insurance Companies Cover Medical Marijuana for Behavioral Health
New Mexico’s largest marijuana company and a coalition of patients have filed a class-action ...
“Administrative Detox” From Methadone Sums Up System’s Cruelty
I got a distressing phone call one morning from a comrade in our local ...
The Mission to Make Psilocybin Available to UK Cancer Patients
“I was involved in oncology when I was a medic,” Dr. Malcolm Barratt-Johnson told ...
As a Methadone Patient, I Demand No Return to the Pre-COVID Status Quo
COVID-19 made us rethink how and why we were doing all kinds of things ...
More Doctors Recommending Vapes—Due in Part to Patients’ Prompting
A study published April 15 in JAMA Network Open found that more and more ...
Toronto’s New Hospital-Based Safe Consumption Site Is a First for Ontario
A specialized hospital in Toronto opened the doors to a new supervised consumption site ...
