opioids

For people in pain, the following history is familiar.  After a year of political maneuvering and under-the-table influence peddling, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at CDC issued a “guideline” in March 2016, for

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In 2016 I testified at an FDA hearing about the "opioid crisis," which was starting to make its way into the news in a big way.

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.