Tag: pharmaceuticals
How Artists Are Reimagining the Overdose Crisis
Last year, I volunteered at a harm reduction center where fights and cold sweats ...
DEA Pursues Vast Expansion of Patient Surveillance
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is looking to expand its anti-diversion surveillance infrastructure by ...
Elizabeth Warren Advocates to Formalize Barriers for Pain Patients
Five lawmakers, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, have renewed their demands for the DEA to ...
How COVID-19 Is Driving Risks in the Illicit Benzodiazepines Market
The life conditions imposed by the pandemic are leading many Americans to seek mental ...
Methadose: A Parable of Putting Profit Before Human Lives
Imagine being on a medication, any medication, and all a sudden it doesn’t work ...
Why Some Appalachian Pharmacies Refuse to Dispense Buprenorphine
Some pharmacies in Appalachia, a region hit hard by the opioid-involved overdose crisis, are ...
Intubated Patients Need Fentanyl. The DEA Had Recently Cut Production.
As the pandemic sweeps the country, overwhelming intensive care units with patients in need ...
How Adderall Prescription Hurdles Pushed Me to Use Meth, Quit Cannabis
I have been prescribed Adderall for over five years. I was diagnosed with ADHD ...
NY Governor’s Office Points to Stimulant Addiction Meds as Deaths Rise
In response to increasing numbers of cocaine- and methamphetamine-related deaths in New York, Governor ...
How Emergency Departments Fail Pain Patients in Need
Since 2000, Anne Fuqua has been on opioid pain medications, including fentanyl and Oxycontin, ...
