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America Can't Rely on Others to Solve Our Drug Crisis Feb. 13, 2025
Fentanyl presents America with a terrible dilemma. More than 74,000 Americans died in 2023 after tak... Read More
Incarceration Should Not Be a Death Sentence for Individuals Who Use Opioids Dec. 02, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
The opioid epidemic has gripped communities for more than 20 years. From 1999 to 2022, nearly 727,00... Read More
The Shadows Turned Away From the Sun Jun. 09, 2024
At 5:30 a.m., it was still dark when we — five cops, two city council members, and one city ma... Read More
You Can't Stop Fentanyl Oct. 17, 2023
Fentanyl has killed more Americans than the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined. And line... Read More
Don't Aid and Abet Addiction in Colorado Oct. 11, 2023
Call them needle exchanges; call them safe-use sites; sugar-coat them as "overdose prevention center... Read More
Colorado's Higher Ed Joins Fight Against Fentanyl Oct. 10, 2023
Fentanyl is a scourge on society and, too often, a death sentence for those who overdose after consu... Read More
Help AG Weiser Teach Children About Death Sep. 11, 2023
Coloradans have an attorney general who fancies himself "The People's Lawyer." That requires him to ... Read More
'Safe Use' Sites? Call Them 'Suicide' Sites Sep. 04, 2023
The word from the Capitol this week is that state lawmakers might try again to legalize "safe use" s... Read More
A Netflix Drama Reinforces Pernicious Misconceptions About Pain Treatment: 'Painkiller' Reflects an Indiscriminate Anti-Opioid Bias That Has Caused Needless Suffering Aug. 24, 2023
Former New York Times reporter Barry Meier, whose book about OxyContin is the main basis for the Net... Read More
Fentanyl Shows No Signs of Relenting Jul. 19, 2023
Fentanyl sounds so 2022, but don't be fooled by the relative lack of attention it receives today. Co... Read More
The Opioid Harm Reduction Trap Mar. 22, 2023
"I would love to see a world in which Boy Scouts make handing out naloxone as their Eagle Scout proj... Read More
The Other Deadly Plague Is Only Getting Worse Jan. 12, 2022
Long before the arrival of COVID-19, America was being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. Unlike the coro... Read More
Decision Makers Behind Purdue Pharma's Opioid Criminality Deserve Prison Time Oct. 28, 2020
Last week's admission by Purdue Pharma of criminal responsibility for its role in fomenting and expl... Read More
The False Premises of the Ruling Against Johnson & Johnson: Blaming Opioid Makers for 'Opioid Crisis' May Be Emotionally Satisfying, but Reality Is More Complicated Aug. 28, 2019
This week, an Oklahoma judge ruled that Johnson & Johnson should pay $572 million to "abate" a "publ... Read More
Saving Lives, Giving Dignity May. 09, 2019
Recently, our geriatric cat, Sara, was diagnosed with kidney disease. She's over 100 in people years... Read More
Can Damage Done by CDC's Opioid Guidelines Be Reversed? Agency's Acknowledgment of Suffering Caused by Its Prescribing Advice May Be Too Little, Too Late May. 01, 2019
When the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published its opioid prescribing guidelines... Read More
The Opioid Crisis Hits Close to Home Apr. 25, 2019
Last winter, my husband and I joined with other mourners at the funeral of a man who died in his mid... Read More
The Thorny Problem of Finding Who's to Blame for Drug Overdoses Feb. 08, 2019
As prescription and illicit opioid overdose deaths continue to rise in the United States, lawsuits a... Read More
Time to Reverse the Odds of Preventable Death Jan. 25, 2019
For the first time since records have been kept on such things, the odds of someone accidentally dyi... Read More
Clean Up Before Listening Up Jan. 23, 2019
Next time you see a doctor and watch him wash his hands before the exam, maybe ask if he'll give his... Read More
