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SCOTUS Needs to Clarify the Line Between Doctors and Drug Dealers: Patients Suffer When Physicians Who Prescribe Opioids in Good Faith Can Face Decades in Prison Mar. 02, 2022
Xiulu Ruan, a board-certified Alabama pain specialist, was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison f... Read More
AMA President Leads on Opioids Oct. 24, 2019
Patrice Harris was an early witness to the opioid epidemic in West Virginia, and as an Atlanta resid... Read More
America's Drug Crisis Happened Because We Let It Happen Jul. 27, 2019
Here's some good news. Last year, for the first time since 1990, deaths from drug overdoses actually... Read More
Marijuana Still the Most-Used Drug Oct. 18, 2018
TEENS: The good news is that an annual study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse conducted by th... Read More
Recognizing Substance Abuse Oct. 15, 2018
Q: I was shocked to read an article recently about the problems my state is having with prescription... Read More
Mind Over Matter Mar. 04, 2017
"I'm pregnant," I told the woman washing her windows as I vomited into the trash can at the gas pump... Read More
Illegal Drug Use Is out of Control Dec. 31, 2016
TEENS: The use of illegal drugs in the United States continues to expand at an alarming rate. Illega... Read More
'Opioid Epidemic' Myths May. 18, 2016
Last week, the House of Representatives approved what The New York Times described as "a mountain of... Read More
No Opiates for the Masses? Mar. 20, 2016
There is no problem so bad that government-imposed remedies cannot make it worse, spawn new problems... Read More
