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Dec 09 2013
News
Amid the Uproar Over the Health Law, Voices of Quiet Optimism and Relief
Since his chronic leukemia was diagnosed in 2010, Ray Acosta has paid dearly for health insurance: more than $800 a month in premiums, plus steep co-payments for the drug that helps keep him alive.
New York Times (News)May 01 2013
News
Backers will seek contempt ruling if Obama balks at morning-after pill ruling
A legal fund suing the Obama administration over access to a “morning-after birth control pill says it will not sit idly if the government does not comply with a court order to make the drug available to all ages.
Washington TimesDec 17 2019
News
We have a solution for the opioid epidemic. It’s dramatically underused.
Medications work really well for opioid addiction. Most rehab facilities don’t use them.
Ian McLoone was at his son’s first birthday party in 2011 when his drug addiction rehab center called him at his Minneapolis home, telling him he needed to come back early.
McLoone quickly realized he was in trouble. The day before, he had missed curfew while chaperoning another client’s
VoxAug 05 2013
Opinion
DEA Covering Up Spying Used To Investigated Americans
A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts wiretaps informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.
HuffPostJun 16 2021
News
Inside Pfizer’s race to produce the world’s biggest supply of covid vaccine
The first attempt to produce industrial-scale quantities of the experimental vaccine that has played a central role in arresting the coronavirus pandemic in the United States was a total failure.
Operators at a Pfizer plant outside Kalamazoo hoped the trial run could provide quick validation of the company’s gamble on a newfangled mRNA technology. It also was an early test of Pfizer’s
Washington PostNov 04 2019
Opinion
Doctors Are Still Denying People Pain Meds and the Results Are Deadly
After tens of thousands of pain patients were forced to reduce their opioid dosages—some cut off entirely, with little warning—the federal government has finally realized that sharp cuts in prescribing are actually causing some of the harms they intended to prevent. This year, three key federal agencies issued stark warnings about suicide and overdose risk associated with these practices.
ViceApr 05 2018
Opinion
OPINION: Opioids, Abortion, and Our Confused Politics of the Body
I need to disclose two very private facts. They are not causally related. First, when I was in my mid-teens, my girlfriend had an abortion. Second, I am an occasional user of pain management drugs such as morphine and oxycodone, which I typically acquire through illicit markets on the dark web. These two experiences — the abortion and my use of opioids — illustrate some paradoxes in the
The American SpectatorApr 08 2021
News
Biden admin to 'surge' aid to Central America, offer 'legal paths' to stem historic migration
The Biden administration is working "to surge humanitarian assistance to" Central American countries and to offer new "legal paths" for migration, according to U.S. officials, as it tries to manage a historic jump in the number of migrants reaching the southern U.S. border.
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to Mexico's president Wednesday as she takes the lead for the new
ABC News (Online)Jan 03 2017
Opinion
OPINION: Donald Trump, Bureaucracy Apprentice
Every election year, politicians of both parties portray Washington as a Gomorrah of influence peddling, goldbricking and waste, funded by hardworking taxpayers. But to the civil servants who process Social Security payments, hunt tax cheats, track terrorists, enforce environmental laws, maintain national parks or test experimental drugs, the federal government is not just the source of a
New York Times (News)Dec 26 2014
News
Pizza Industry Vows to Continue Fight Against Obamacare’s Onerous Menu Labeling Regulation
It’s been a month since the Food and Drug Administration announced its final rule for menu labeling, a regulation that’s already proving to be a nightmare for the major chain restaurants and retail food establishments that must comply by Dec. 1, 2015, or face a stiff penalty.
Townhall