opioids

Surgeons prescribe pain medications, makes sense; pain is a frequent “adverse” effect of surgical care. And with the drumbeats of concern over opioid addiction, physicians have reassessed our prescribing habits.

Writing in her blog at the National Institute On Drug Abuse, Dr. Nora Volkow and co-author Dr.

Spoiler alert – this is not a discussion of whether anyone should be held liable for Roundup or opioids.

Public health is our passion at ACSH. We want to promote public health while simultaneously preserving individual liberty. That's been our goal since we were founded in 1978.

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

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

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.

A bus driver involved in a crash was charged with “child endangerment, driving while impaired and possession of drug

In the hotly contested "worst opioid information " contest we may have a new leader: Derek Rose, an "investigative reporter" for WISN, an ABC affiliate in Milwaukee.

By Wolfgang Vogel