Tag: opioids
7-OH Did Not Cause the LA Overdose Deaths (Neither Did Kratom)
On September 12, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) announced that ...
“Mother of Methadone”—Trailblazing and Stigma in Addiction Medicine
With Dr. Melody Glenn’s new book—Mother of Methadone: A Doctor’s Quest, A Forgotten History, ...
“An Architect of the Crisis”: WV Sues Express Scripts Over Rx Opioids
West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey (R) has filed a lawsuit against Express Scripts ...
Baltimore Accepts Offer for Fraction of the Opioid Settlement It Sought
The city of Baltimore has opted to take a court deal that will leave ...
Judge Offers Baltimore $100 million for OD Crisis—Far Less Than City Sought
A judge has offered Baltimore $100 million for opioid abatement efforts in a landmark ...
FDA Requires All Rx Opioid Labeling Warn About Risks of Long-Term Use
The Food and Drug Administration is overhauling the safety labeling requirements for opioid analgesics, ...
FDA Marks 7-OH, Kratom Compound With Opioid Effect, for CSA Schedule I
The Food and Drug Administration is recommending that 7-hydroxymitragynine, commonly referred to as 7-OH, ...
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 ...
A Methadone Pioneer Who Freed People From the Cruel Clinic System
Dr. Edwin Salsitz is a methadone OG. He was one of a coterie of ...
