Month: July 2017
Big Pharma wants in on the cannabis-based painkiller market
Due to the success that cannabis has proven with weaning addicts off opiates
An example: weed-infused, cool mint-flavored chewing gum has shown its effectiveness at delivering chronic pain relief
Rather than a prepackaged cannabis product, why not just let people grow their own medicine?
Warrantless access to medical records latest “tool” to fight opioid epidemic
Yemen: war or genocide?
Named as nation at greatest risk of genocide or mass killing by Minority Rights Group International.
With a death toll rising above 10,000, and the worst cholera epidemic in recorded history, Yemen has all the symptoms of genocide.
Child welfare agency takes couple’s children due to low IQ
Fastest-growing industry in U.S.
Opioid epidemic is a win-win for Big Pharma
Overdose antidote Narcan skyrockets in price.
500% increase in the past two years.
Oklahoma Medical Board bans physician from prescribing opioids
After 14 of his patients died of overdoses.
Here’s an idea: ban every physician from prescribing heroin-based painkillers.
Fear of the greatest public health innovation in recent memory
Mass hysteria in town councils and halls of Congress, over small clouds of water vapor, is hampering the rapid demise of cigarettes.