The Department of Justice is accusing CVS Pharmacy Inc. of unlawfully filling opioid prescriptions that directly led to overdose deaths,…
A Baltimore judge will soon decide the fate of a landmark opioid lawsuit. The beleaguered city hopes to obtain billions…
[This article is excerpted from the book Policing Patients. You can read Filter’s interview with the author here.] Pharmacists’…
Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis is a Swiss Army knife of a book.…
Over my 21 years of using opioids I’ve often joked to myself that I don’t have a drug problem, I…
I’ve been using drugs—opioids, stimulants and many others—on and off for basically my whole adult life. I don’t see it…
A federal government agency has published a wide-ranging series of scientific reports on marijuana and cancer as part of an…
A lawsuit in British Columbia details how a regulatory body is allegedly “harassing” doctors into taking pain patients off their…
In bankruptcy court on July 9, OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma secured an injunction to temporarily stave off lawsuits while it…
In North America, fentanyl and other potent synthetic drugs in the supply have been associated with an unprecedented overdose crisis…