The Food and Drug Administration is overhauling the safety labeling requirements for opioid analgesics, citing new evidence that problematic use…
The Food and Drug Administration is recommending that 7-hydroxymitragynine, commonly referred to as 7-OH, be federally scheduled under the Controlled…
A judge has rejected Baltimore’s request for $5.2 billion in abatement money in a long-running opioid lawsuit—dealing a major blow…
In 2012, right before prescription drug-monitoring programs (PDMP) shut everything down, I was seeing 11 doctors every month—the same 11…
Dr. Edwin Salsitz is a methadone OG. He was one of a coterie of New York City doctors who pioneered…
Walgreens, the nation’s second-largest pharmacy chain, will pay $300 million plus 4 percent interest to settle Department of Justice allegations…
Rehab can serve a lot of purposes other than abstinence. For some people the goal is a tolerance break, or…
Seven years ago, a deeply controversial paper claimed that states introducing laws to expand naloxone led to increases in opioid-related…
In January, Scotland opened the first sanctioned overdose prevention center (OPC) in the United Kingdom. As of March 17, the…
British Columbia’s provincial government has ended its take-home safe supply program for new participants, with an intention to transition existing…