opioids

Public health is our passion at ACSH. We want to promote public health while simultaneously preserving individual liberty. That's been our goal since we were founded in 1978.
I'm often left shaking my head in amazement at the CDC, for both good and bad reasons.
Chronic pain affects millions of Americans. Perhaps someone you know.
As winter rolls into spring, we here at ACSH are springing ahead with our pro-science agenda. (Did you see what we did there?) Here's where we appeared in recent days.
A bus driver involved in a crash was charged with “child endangerment, driving while impaired and possession of drug
In the hotly contested "worst opioid information " contest we may have a new leader: Derek Rose, an "investigative reporter" for WISN, an ABC affiliate in Milwaukee.
It is now indisputable that the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, United States, 2016 was a catastrophe by any measure.
Surgeons never let the skin come between them and a problem – it is a fundamental feature of our DNA.