opioid crisis

It's a new year, but we're the same old ACSH. While everyone else was out partying and celebrating, we were busy debunking junk and spreading the good word about science. This year is already off to a great start.

 

The Rand Corporation just released their study on the opioid crisis. Everything that follows our their words, gently edited and slightly rearranged. No facts or conclusions were harmed in this production.

The opioid epidemic has resulted in some soul-searching in the medical community.

#Special to ACSH. Reprinted with permission of Dr. Jeffrey Singer and the Cato Institute. Dr.

You have to give them credit for getting to the point quickly enough. Dr. Katherine Sleeman and Professor Sir John Strang of King's College in London don't mess around:

Today's Wall Street Journal article entitled "Overdose Deaths Likely to Fall for First Time Since 1990" will certainly garner a lot of

The state of Oklahoma is smelling blood in the water and it is going after blood money.

I'm often left shaking my head in amazement at the CDC, for both good and bad reasons.