Tag: pharmaceuticals
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 ...
The Most Common Drug Conviction for ICE Detainees? Rx Drug Possession
Since the very beginning of his path to and through the White House, Donald ...
Canadian Pharmacist Punished for Grassroots Naloxone Distribution
An Ontario regulatory organization for pharmacists is cracking down on a grassroots harm reductionist ...
Will the FDA Repeat Its “Abuse-Deterrent” Oxy Mistake With Stimulants?
OxyContin got a makeover in 2010. That year, the Food and Drug Administration approved ...
Is the Purdue Settlement a Win for Harm Reduction?
The battle to hold corporations accountable for their involvement in fueling chaotic opioid use ...
