I cannot in good conscience circuitously support her horrible drug habit. And neither should you. Simply, we, as her audience, are filling her crack coffers.
Bill Piper | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
Congress has yet again renewed the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant program, a federal law enforcement grant program that is feeding the war on drugs and fueling racial disparities, police corruption, and civil rights abuses.
GOOD Magazine | Posted 06.18.2008 | Living
Words By Corey Binns Photos By Jen Dessinger Outside a convenience store, a teenage girl makes an offer to an intimidating group of men: "You can do ...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama showed again today that he is determined to get and keep the Iraq vet vote and the ballots of those who care about them.
Doug Bremner | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living
The clinical trials of anti-smoking drug Chantix excluded people with mental disorders, but smoking is increased in this population, and these people are obviously at increased risk of suicidality.
Doug Bremner | Posted 06.09.2008 | Living
You may have read that heart disease is under diagnosed in women, and that they are missing potential treatments that could save their lives.
Diane Dimond | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics
Overall, prisons are pretty darned efficient in keeping the convicted IN. Where they loose the battle is over keeping OUT what doesn't belong.
Doug Bremner | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living
Jennifer Buettner started Efficacy Brands to sell placebo pills marketed specifically for children. She calls them Obecalb -- "placebo" spelled backwards.
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 05.28.2008 | Living
Nature has built natural "anti depressants" right into our bodies that we can activate whenever we need to. It is remarkably easy to attain a "feel good" state if we just adopt a few proactive habits and keep them going.
Doug Bremner | Posted 05.26.2008 | Living
According to the guidelines, half of postmenopausal women should be taking medication for osteoporosis. However, this may not be the best way to take care of your bones.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 05.19.2008 | Living
Two things I want to call attention to: first, last week, the House Education and Labor Committee approved historic legislation to begin to regulate...
Doug Bremner | Posted 05.19.2008 | Living
There is now a large body of research, including studies with tens of thousands of patients, that shows that vitamins do not prevent heart disease or lengthen your life.
Doug Bremner | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
Competition and the private marketplace is not the best approach for healthcare. You just think it is because you've been listening to a bunch of fruit-loops like Rush Limbaugh and Neil Boortz.
Doug Bremner | Posted 05.13.2008 | Living
I blogged a couple of weeks ago about pine straw and the division in the state of Georgia. Anyway I got some interesting feedback from our South Georgia/North Florida contingent about the topic of pine straw.
Doug Bremner | Posted 05.12.2008 | Living
I had a wonderful day today with attorneys representing Hoffmann-La Roche in litigation related to the psychiatric effects of their acne drug Accutane...
Donna Fish | Posted 05.08.2008 | Living
I want to help all you parents out there learn why and how it is vital to embrace your intense feelings of hatred at times towards your kids. Don't feel guilty.
Jennifer Kern | Posted 05.07.2008 | Living
Much like the "Just Say No" approach, random drug testing oversimplifies the complexities of life faced by teenagers these days.
Doug Bremner | Posted 05.06.2008 | Living
Half of all Americans take prescription medications. Eighty one percent take some type of pill. 100,000 die every year from a prescription med that they either didn't need or that was not properly prescribed. What is going on here?
AP | ALLISON HOFFMAN | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home
SAN DIEGO — Dozens of San Diego State University students were arrested and six fraternities were suspended after a sweeping drug investigation ...
Doug Bremner | Posted 05.02.2008 | Living
A collective howl is going up amongst women over at medications.com over the birth control pill, Yasmin.
Robert Weissman | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business
The nations of the world are currently debating how to design new medical research and development (R&D) mechanisms to serve the twin goals of promoti...
Robert Weissman | Posted 04.30.2008 | Business
The world -- and especially developing countries -- needs more innovation. To have public health benefit, however, the fruits of the innovative process must be available to people who need them.
Doug Bremner | Posted 04.29.2008 | Business
I have a secret (?) interest in drug news and the pharmaceutical industry but it seems like the only place I can get a fix for my jones outside of pha...
Doug Bremner | Posted 04.28.2008 | Living
I was spreading pine straw around the bushes in my yard in Atlanta, Georgia, when I started thinking about... you guessed it! The goofy names that drug companies come up with for their prescription drugs.
Derek Beres | Posted 04.17.2008 | Living
Tragically, a drug often works no better than a sugar pill, yet the pharmaceutical industry is driving -- let's make that dominating -- our economy.
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Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
Michael Lewittes | Posted 06.23.2008 | Entertainment