The government has tried to harness profit-driven drugmaking to serve public health before. The results were underwhelming.
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The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine goes to the discoverers of the hepatitis C virus. There's an effective cure but homelessness and the opioid epidemic are driving a surge in infections.
It's not enough anymore for journalists to be mere watchdogs. Journalism must address subconscious social biases to give readers a fuller picture of what they need to know.
COVID-19 plagues an overtaxed opioid addiction treatment system.
The U.S. suicide rate has been increasing for decades. According to a sociologist who studies suicide, depression is just one factor among many implicated social conditions.
The overdose crisis — coupled with a lack of accessible harm reduction services — represents a growing concern for young queer and trans men who use drugs.
The crisis has made recovery more difficult for those with substance use disorders. The inability to get to support group meetings, stress and illness are just some of the factors.
Pharmacists are well positioned to provide communities with a lifesaving drug.
Aggressive marketing of prescription opioids by pharmaceutical companies provided doctors with scant information about potential harmful effects.
The Trump administration's budget for healthcare proposes significant cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.
In 2016, drug misuse was cited as the top concern among New Hampshire voters. What remedies are the Democratic primary contenders putting forward to combat the opioid crisis?
The government has tried to harness a profit-driven drug industry to serve public health before.
Treatments for opioid dependence, such as methadone and buprenorphine, are effective. But some people who stand to benefit are missing out.
Opioid overdoses killed 47,000 Americans in 2017 — more than gun violence. Many fewer would have died if they'd been treated with the life-saving drug naloxone, also called Narcan.
Institutions that benefited from donations from benefactors such as Epstein are facing hard questions. In a somewhat similar ethical debate in 1905, a pastor argued for return of a Rockefeller gift.
Previously secret documents and data make it clear that many companies engaged in the distribution of prescription painkillers either skirted or ignored their legal obligations for years.
In an era of rapid technological advance, devastating climate change, increasing inequality and a steadily aging society, health-care leadership development is vital.
The evidence is clear that newborn babies do better when they 'room-in' with their opioid-dependent mothers. So why are hospitals across Canada so slow to provide this recognized standard of care?
A policy response focused on reducing prescription opioids will not resolve North America's opioid crisis. And it is hurting many adults who live with otherwise unbearable chronic pain.
The $270 million settlement may not mean a whole lot if Purdue files for bankruptcy as it's reportedly considering.
Principales colaboradores
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Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
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Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Emergency Physician at University Health Network, Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto
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Professor, Head of Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Law, IUPUI
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Associate Professor of History, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Foundation Chair in Physiotherapy, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor of Population Health, New York University Langone Medical Center
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Associate Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine; Interim Director of the Health Communication Program, Tufts University
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Chancellor, Rutgers University - Newark
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Dean, Perimeter College & Professor, Social Work, Georgia State University
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Associate Dean and Chief Academic Officer for Nursing and Director, Project Healthy Grandparents, Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions, Georgia State University
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Associate professor, School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney
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Division Chief, Pain Medicine, Vanderbilt University
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Research Scholar at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
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Visiting Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, King's College London
