My Articles

December 5, 2023 – Sickle Cell Anemia: Bad Luck and Simple Chemistry
December 1, 2023 – Biden-Xi Meeting: Can Fentanyl Be Curtailed by Banning Precursor Chemicals?
November 30, 2023 – 10 Years Ago Today: My First Publication as a Pain Patient Advocate in the New York Post
November 29, 2023 – Big Bidet Aims to Wipe Out Charmin
November 20, 2023 – Supplement Schadenfreude: FDA Hammers 'Balance of Nature'
November 20, 2023 – Urban Myth Busted In Time For Thanksgiving: Turkey Does Not Make You Sleepy
November 17, 2023 – 'Smart Drops' for Dumb Consumers
November 14, 2023 – 'Pink' AKA U47700: Another Ingredient in the 'Kolodny Kocktail'
November 7, 2023 – Thanksgiving Silly Scares: Don't Eat, Drink, or Drive
November 1, 2023 – Scientists Were Wrong For 5+ Decades About How Certain Cancer Drugs Work. Here's Why It Matters.
October 29, 2023 – If You're a *Poison Expert* it Is Unwise to Poison Your Wife. A Colchicine Lesson.
October 24, 2023 – Garlic Breath? Mouthwash Won't Work. Here's Why
October 24, 2023 – Toxic Drug Completely Wipes Out Testicular Cancer. Here's Why.
October 19, 2023 – All About Advil
October 16, 2023 – Some People React to Caffeine, Some Don't. Here's Why
October 11, 2023 – What's the Most Nauseating TV Drug Ad?
October 9, 2023 – ‘Another One Bites the Dust': Dedicated to Anti-Opioid Zealots
October 2, 2023 – A (Badly Needed) Math Lesson for Sen. Joe Manchin
September 27, 2023 – 'Vegan Tylenol' and the Pain of Scientific Ignorance
September 27, 2023 – Paxlovid Works in the 'Real World.' Here's How.
September 21, 2023 – Is the Result of 'Fentanyl Chemicals' Crackdown, Deadlier Nitazenes?
September 19, 2023 – Cigarettes Are Sexy! Who Knew?
September 18, 2023 – Sudafed PE Is Worthless (Just Like the Drug Policies That Put It on the Shelf)
September 15, 2023 – Laws Based on Rapid Drug Tests Are Unscientific and Unfair
September 12, 2023 – At Least Paqui ‘Vicious’ Chips Are Non-GMO
September 7, 2023 – Beneficent DEA Allows Us to Switch Pharmacies. How Gracious of Them!
September 5, 2023 – Jessica Biel's Ridiculous 'Kinder' 'Farm' Children's Medicine
August 31, 2023 – Fenethylline: ‘Drug of Jihad'
August 28, 2023 – One Reason Why RNA Viruses (Like Covid) Mutate So Quickly? A Little Organic Chemistry
August 26, 2023 – A Demented Pickleball Chemistry Lesson
August 22, 2023 – Tylenol: 6 More Years of Failure
August 18, 2023 – Raw Oysters. Yick. And Possibly Dangerous.
August 11, 2023 – HMB: A Muscle-Building Supplement That Might Slow Alzheimer's?
August 8, 2023 – CNN: Dear Slobs: Stop Blowing Out Candles on Cakes! I Concur.
August 6, 2023 – How Bad is Antibiotic Resistance Today? An Interview with Dr. David Shlaes.
August 2, 2023 – NY Times Nails It on Dietary Supplements. And Quotes ACSH.
August 2, 2023 – The J-Man Chronicles: Snorkeling for Turds in the 'Beautiful' Bronx River
July 26, 2023 – Can CBD Oil Make You Test Positive For THC?
July 21, 2023 – US Continues to Push Failed Drug Policies: Drs. Singer and Bloom in The Daily Beast
July 21, 2023 – Thebacon: An Opioid That You Can't Bring Home And Fry In A Pan
July 20, 2023 – Harvard Drug Cocktail Will Make You Live Longer? Not So Fast
July 17, 2023 – Kansas' Flawed DUI Drug Screen isn't Better Than Nothing; It's Worse
July 11, 2023 – The J-Man Chronicles: Do You Have 'Meat Sweats?'
July 8, 2023 – Kudos to Newsday's 'Pain Pill Shortage' Article
July 5, 2023 – Para-Fluorofentanyl: A New, Old Monster
June 28, 2023 – Date Rape Redux: Deadly Fentanyl Used for Robberies
June 26, 2023 – All About Taurine: A Possible Anti-Aging Supplement
June 22, 2023 – Honeysuckle: Nature's Parfumerie
June 19, 2023 – Let's Celebrate National Urine Day!
June 15, 2023 – 5 Interesting (But Ultimately Useless), Bizarre Chemistry Factoids