opioid crisis

Chronic pain affects millions of Americans. Perhaps someone you know.

Dr. Andrew Kolodny, one of the world's premier experts on addiction and drugs was kind enough to sit down with me to discuss some very tough questions regarding the ongoing opioid crisis in the US. We all owe Dr.

As winter rolls into spring, we here at ACSH are springing ahead with our pro-science agenda. (Did you see what we did there?) Here's where we appeared in recent days.

If you're in the mood to get really pissed off feel free to visit Tylenol.com. But don't say I didn't warn you.

Here's a first. A study that might actually disprove itself. I've never seen anything like it.

The New York Times editorial board who is content in the belief that they are “the newspaper of record” wrote in an on-going series on women's rights on the “bad science and a moral panic” behind the 

It is now indisputable that the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, United States, 2016 was a catastrophe by any measure.

"Controlled Prescription Drugs (CPDs) ... are still responsible for the most drug-involved overdose deaths and are the second most commonly abused substance in the United States."

If you watched professional wrestling in the 1960s it would be difficult not to remember William "Haystacks" Calhoun.

In 2017, more than 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses.