Tag: pharmaceuticals
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, ...
How to Check Drug Interactions With Hep C Medications
In the United Kingdom, half of surveyed people who inject drugs had been infected ...
A Dire Shortage of ADD Meds Is Pushing Some Patients to Street Meth
America is beginning—far too late and far too slowly—to get some kind of a ...
The Ethical Quagmire of Conducting Drug Trials With Incarcerated People
Using human beings as “guinea pigs” for unethical experiments becomes so much easier when ...
