Policy & Ethics

Where science meets society: regulatory decisions, research ethics, public health policy, and the debates around how scientific knowledge is applied, funded, and communicated.

A systematic review is only as informative as the relationship between the evidence it includes and the conclusions it draws.
The federal drug police want to turn consumers of certain concentrated kratom-derived products into criminals while leaving traditional kratom leaf products outside the ban.
“I would say that we live in a democracy, and part of the responsibility of being a parent is to do your own research.” – HHS 
Reporters love an apocalypse, even when they have to invent one.
My friends Dan and Diane Henry lost their daughter to pain. Danielle began experiencing migraine disease when she was eight
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of the amended Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Science is meant to be self-correcting, but is this true in practice?
A recent Atlantic essay, “The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs,” by Michael Powell, offers a disturbing
Once, an HIV/AIDS diagnosis meant virtually certain death. [1] That was before Gilead Pharmaceuticals developed the drug tenofovir in two “prodrug” forms [2], tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) and tenofovir alafenamide (TAF).