Drugs

Dr. Leana Wen discusses why treating drug addiction as a public health issue is crucial in pursuing social justice.

In recent years, there has been a broad re-thinking of policies that put thousands of people behind bars for long prison terms.

Drugs and chemicals in the drinking water are a huge, underreported problem which officials are barely addressing.

With naloxone now so readily available, why are so many addiction treatment facilities failing to provide it?

The US prefers to scapegoat high-profile villains, like a Mexican drug cartel boss, rather than acknowledge its own culpability.

A drug company that makes animal drugs, purchased not by consumers but by factory farms, is advertising directly to consumers who will never actually purchase those drugs.

Despite some criticisms, the WTO's decision to extend the waiver should be praised.

Seeking rehabilitation, many Puerto Ricans have come to Chicago only to find abuse and neglect.

Any honest discussion of high drug prices should include some consideration of alternative financing mechanisms.

In Alabama, anti-drug fervor and abortion politics have turned a meth-lab law into the country's harshest weapon against pregnant women.