Over-the-Counter Narcan Could Save More Lives. But Price and Stigma Are Obstacles.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected this week to [...]
The Adderall Shortage Reflects Bad Drug Policy
The D.E.A. is failing at its mission.
More Doctors Can Now Prescribe Buprenorphine to Opioid Users. Will It Help?
The federal government loosened regulations for buprenorphine, but health experts [...]
New Approaches to the Drug Overdose Crisis
Responses to Jeneen Interlandi’s article and the accompanying editorial. Also: [...]
Opioid Distributors Cleared of Liability to Georgia Families Ravaged by Addiction
The case illustrates the enormous challenges that victims of the [...]
Biden Proposal Would Ban Online Prescribing of Certain Drugs
Some medications, like Ritalin and Vicodin, would require an in-person [...]
A Fraught New Frontier in Telehealth: Ketamine
With loosened rules around remote prescriptions, a psychedelic-like drug has become [...]
Narcan Is Safe to Sell Over the Counter, Advisers to the FDA Conclude
The overdose reversal drug has been administered mostly by emergency [...]
Justice Dept. Sues AmerisourceBergen Over Role in Opioid Crisis
Investigators said the pharmaceutical manufacturer, one of the nation’s largest, [...]
Walmart Agrees to Pay $3.1 Billion to Settle Opioid Lawsuits
The money would help pay for addiction treatment and drug [...]