Many of the drugs used in operating rooms are the same or close pharmacologic relatives to drugs involved in overdose […]

Dalton Barrett, a paramedic in North Carolina, recently wrote, “this week my exposure to medetomidine withdrawal is changing literally everything I thought I knew about

The Trump administration has increasingly cozied up to addiction-for-profit industries, as evidenced by the approval of fruit-flavored vapes, rescheduling of marijuana, and removal of tariffs on Scotch whiskey. These industries have contributed millions of

A recent study, drawing on data from the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, found that individuals who used marijuana in the

This post is reprinted with permission from Sue’s Substack, by Sue Rusche. On May 15—three days after Dr. Marty Makary resigned

A recent study in Nature Mental Health found that individuals who co-used marijuana and tobacco were 2.93 times more likely to develop psychosis than individuals who did

Tom Wolf, who leads West Coast initiatives for the Foundation for Drug Policy Solutions, has become a leader in the recovery-first movement.

Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that overdose deaths declined from 81,313 in 2024

A recent study in the International Journal of Drug Policy, citing data from the 2023 International Cannabis Policy Study, found that 6% of

A recent survey from Faces & Voices of Recovery, a national leader in the drug policy field, found that Americans’ beliefs about addiction