Policy & Ethics

Interested in a simple, common-sense way to make street drugs much safer? This would go a long way toward mitigating our misnamed "opioid overdose crisis." Why misnamed?

Today the Drug Enforcement Administration released a Public Safety Alert warning the public about “the alarming increase in the l

“We don’t need the fun police to come in and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn’t be doing,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed

In August 2020, Scientific American offered its readers some spot-on advice about how to evaluate the constant stream of COVID-19 research we're all subjected to.

Did you quit smoking with the help of an electronic cigarette like I did? The FDA is unimpressed with your progress toward a healthier lifestyle.

A recent perspective piece in the Washington Post is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the so-called "opioid epidemic."&nb

Study after study (after

After denying that the federal government could mandate COVID vaccines less than two months ago, the Biden Administration reversed course on Thu

"Cleaning, integrating, and managing the uncertainty in chaotic real data is essential for reproducible science and to unleash the potential power of big data for biomedical research.” 

“Massive randomized study is proof that surgical masks limit coronavirus spread,” the Washington P