Tag: opioids
In Rural Areas, People Who Use Drugs Face Particularly Severe Housing Crisis
Compared to the media spotlight on urban homelessness and drug use, rural areas have ...
Utah Sues Pharmacy Benefit Managers for “Central Role” in Opioid OD Crisis
Utah is suing two of the nation’s top pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), the companies ...
DOJ Sues CVS, Alleging “Massive Public Harm” From Opioid Dispensing
The Department of Justice is accusing CVS Pharmacy Inc. of unlawfully filling opioid prescriptions ...
Baltimore’s $5.2 Billion Opioid Lawsuit Now in the Hands of One Judge
A Baltimore judge will soon decide the fate of a landmark opioid lawsuit. The ...
Pharmacists’ Opioid Decisions: From “Social Sorting” to Policing
[This article is excerpted from the book Policing Patients. You can read Filter’s interview ...
How “Trojan Horse Technology” Turned Health Care Into Policing
Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis is a ...
I Just Overdosed Again. This Time, It Was Different.
I’ve been using drugs—opioids, stimulants and many others—on and off for basically my whole ...
National Cancer Institute Surveys Pain Patients’ Cannabis, Polysubstance Use
A federal government agency has published a wide-ranging series of scientific reports on marijuana ...
BC Lawsuit Highlights Harms of Opioid Prescribing Crackdown
A lawsuit in British Columbia details how a regulatory body is allegedly “harassing” doctors ...
