The Scholar: Samuel K. Roberts Jr. on Drug Policy, Radical Recovery and ‘Capital Flight’ Editor’s note: Drug policy is race policy. To honor drug-policy reformers on the front lines, for Black History Month, the Drug Policy Alliance, in partnership with The Root, is bringing you the stories of four phenomenal people who have been instr Read more ... umental in shaping conversations around drug policy ...

A Drug Company Hiked Up The Price For Its Overdose Antidote By 600% During An Opioid Epidemic

A Drug Company Hiked Up The Price For Its Overdose Antidote By 600% During An Opioid Epidemic The drug, an easy-to-use injectable version of the overdose drug naloxone, was hiked up from $575 to $4100. “This is a drug without which many people would die,” said one drug expert.

Battling Rising Drug Prices Is Like 'Whac-A-Mole' Says Hospital Exec Hospital drug costs rose 38% in two years-a trend that's unsustainable, many in the industry are saying.

Dozens of Philippine officials turn themselves in after president publicly accuses them of drug ties Despite its brutality, the drug crackdown has been enormously popular in the Philippines, which has struggled with endemic drug use for decades.

Office drug tests are making it harder to fill jobs Both workplace drug testing and drug usage are on the rise in the U.S. As a result, employers are having a harder time h

Drug pricing: That pill that went from $13.50 to $750 can now be had for $1 Almost everyone knows the saga of Turing Pharmaceuticals , its drug Daraprim, and its CEO Martin Shkreli, whose smug, youthful visage became the vilified face of America's shameful drug-pricing system. But now Turing will have a competitor for t Read more ... he drug whose price it jacked up by 5,000%--an…

California's prisons have a 'rampant' drug problem California inmates are dying of drug overdoses at nearly triple the national rate.

FDA approves California company's drug to reduce double-chin fat LOS ANGELES—The Food and Drug Administration has approved a Westlake Village company's injectable drug as a treatment to reduce double-chin fat in adults. Kythera Biopharmaceuticals Inc. said in a news release that injections of the drug have been Read more ... shown in clinical studies to be safe and effective i…

Meet the Dutch cocaine dealer who sells flour to drunk tourists as “drug prevention” A recent Vice interview opens a fascinating window into the street-level economics of the drug trade.