Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

I shouldn’t have been surprised—you can’t mention $2.125 million and expect people to just nod their heads and move on.

The FDA met last week in the first hearing to decide the regulatory fate of the cannabinoid CBD; you know the marijuana component that has no or little psychoactive effect. At the most basic of levels, a drug is a chemical.

I recently had a chat with Rick Bright.  Rick is the Director, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), U.

Some drugs - the legal kind - are great.

There is a green gold rush underway. Not the Green New Deal, but the growth of medicalized, then decriminalized and finally recreational marijuana.

We at ACSH frequently discuss "natural nonsense" - the idea that a drug or chemical is inherently better/safer (or worse/more toxic) because it just happens to be biosynthesized by a living organism, usually a plant (1).

Uh oh. We're in trouble. The "Mexican Blood Flu" is upon us. I've never heard of it but it sure sounds nasty.

# Reprinted with permission. This article originally appeared in Current Medical Research and Opinion. ABSTRACT

The FDA just released its new guidelines on direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising indicating that they now must include their list price. As Secretary Azar so succinctly stated,  

The mad rush to purge this country of demonic prescription analgesic drugs (mainly Vicodin and Percocet) has pain patients and their doctors in an unprecedented dilemma.