News | Prisons & Policing Study: Police Drug Seizures Raise Overdose Risk 2022 saw 109,000 drug overdose deaths and it is projected to surge to 165,000 by 2025. By Mike Pappas , LeftVoice August 6, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Big Pharma Raked in $82B Last Year While Lobbying Against Drug Price Proposals The companies also upped their stock buyback and dividend payouts by nearly $7 billion last year. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout July 25, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Big Pharma’s Opioid Settlement Payouts to Localities Made Public The national opioid settlements are the second-largest public health settlement of all time. By Aneri Pattani , KFFHealthNews June 18, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health A New Report Shows How Big Pharma Is Price Gouging Cancer Patients Many with cancer in the U.S. may soon see long-overdue relief thanks to provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams June 14, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Sanders Will Block Health Nominees Until Biden Offers Plan to Lower Drug Prices As chair of the Senate HELP Committee, Sanders has the unilateral power to block health-related nominees. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout June 13, 2023 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections US’s Largest Lobbying Group Sues to Stop Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Plan The group is suing to stop Medicare from being able to access lower drug prices. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout June 12, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Merck Sues Government, Saying Plan to Lower Medicare Drug Prices Is “Extortion” The company claims that the plan to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices violates the First and Fifth Amendments. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout June 6, 2023 Truthout
Interview | Environment & Health Billionaire Sackler Family Gets Immunity From Civil Lawsuits Over Opioid Crisis The billionaire Sacklers own Purdue Pharma, maker of the highly addictive opioid OxyContin. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! June 2, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health Expanding Use of Primates in Drug Testing Is a Threat to Public Health Proposals to expand domestic breeding of primates for research overlook several ethical, scientific and safety woes. By Zaher Nahle , Truthout May 27, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Sanders Pins Deaths Caused by Insulin Price Gouging on Big Pharma CEOs "This is a problem that is unique to the United States," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. By Kenny Stancil , CommonDreams May 11, 2023 Truthout