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Punishing Patients Won't Reduce Opioid Deaths: A New Medicare Prescription Rule Will Aggravate Undertreatment of Pain Dec. 19, 2018
A patient with metastatic prostate cancer tried to kill himself after he could not get the medicatio... Read More
Fentanyl Is the Latest Deadly Twist in America's Continuing Opioid Epidemic Dec. 05, 2018
The opioid epidemic has a deadly new star: fentanyl, which is easier to overdose with than prescript... Read More
Where Is the Plan to Ease the Pain? Nov. 09, 2018
Pain can take many forms. There is throbbing pain, stabbing pain, phantom pain, acute pain and chron... Read More
Opioid Crisis Grew Unchecked Sep. 06, 2018
Congressional committees recently brought the top executives of opioid manufacturers to Washington t... Read More
CDC Should Put America First Feb. 07, 2018
Under President Obama, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent money and staff to distan... Read More
Opioids: The Crisis of Our Lifetime Dec. 19, 2017
Eric Hargan is about to get a demotion, and he is just fine with that. The acting secretary of the D... Read More
Why Are Pregnant Women Likelier to Die at Rural Hospitals? Aug. 22, 2017
While giving birth at a small hospital in central Tennessee, Whitney Brown developed terrible breath... Read More
Call the Opioid Crisis What It Is: A National Emergency Aug. 08, 2017
If newly named White House Chief of Staff John Kelly succeeds in bringing some order to the chaos th... Read More
The Opioid Crisis: No One's Fault and Everyone's Fault Jul. 04, 2017
CANTON, Ohio — Despite his gaunt frame and sunken eyes, he walks with a distinct swagger down ... Read More
What the Politicians Won't Say About Drugs Apr. 05, 2017
The Trump administration is launching a campaign against the heroin and pain pill epidemic, which ca... Read More
Addiction Battle Is Just What the Doctor Ordered Nov. 29, 2016
With the publication Thursday of a comprehensive 428-page report on drug and alcohol misuse, Surgeon... Read More
The Opioid Crisis Is Crap Feb. 12, 2016
I live in a poverty-stricken former factory town of about 85,000 people. We are, they tell us, in th... Read More
