Policy & Ethics

      Here are five things we really don't need:    

Follow the money. No better words have been used to describe understanding the tangled economic web we may weave.

Those of you who have been following the phony opioid crisis already know that nothing makes sense. Those of you who follow the madness that is called Proposition 65 in California also know that nothing makes sense.

Reporters and editors have the duty to inform the public about current events.

Somehow, it's election season again. Although the general election isn't until November 2020, campaigning began in early 2019. Basically, in America, the presidential campaign cycle is roughly two years long. This is insane.

The second week in a row that a blockbuster article on health has been published; this time an article on “waste” in the US healthcare system published in JAMA.

ACSH has been writing about the now disastrous consequences of withholding opioid pain medications from pain patients with legitimate needs since 2013 (1) – well before most other organizations. Since this time Dr.

Let's pretend that you are faced with a life-threatening cancer, and your doctors tell you that chemotherapy is the only realistic solution available. Would you take it? Most rational people would say yes.

The healthcare conversation seems to have been put on the back burner as our federal government twists and turns over other more “pressing” issues.

Writing in her blog at the National Institute On Drug Abuse, Dr. Nora Volkow and co-author Dr.