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The Thin Line Between 'Bad Drugs' and Medicine
Medical anthropologist Danya Glabau is teaching a class in how the discourse around drugs has changed.
We Asked an Expert How the Price of a Pill Could Leap from 12€ to 700€ Overnight
Hitler lookalike, ex-hedge funder and emo fan Martin Shkreli made headlines for hiking up the price of life-saving medication. How can we stop price-gouging from happening?
Take Some Pills for Your Hysteria, Lady: America's Long History of Drugging Women Up
Women are twice as likely as men to be prescribed prescription drugs for depression or anxiety.
Pill-Popping Kitties: Inside the Pharmaceutical Treatment of Depressed and Anxious Cats
Maybe your cat needs some Xanax. Or acupuncture.
How the Pharmacutical Industry Is Making Money out of Overdosing Americans
Now that opioid overdose is among the leading causes of death, pharmaceutical companies have found a way to make huge profits from selling the antidote, naloxone.
Your ADHD Meds Might Give You a Life-Threatening Erection
The FDA issued a warning that a small number of the 5 percent of young boys who have been diagnosed with ADHD are at risk for priapism, aka: boners that won't go away.
More and More US Veterans Are Smoking Weed to Treat Their PTSD
I spoke with two ex-marines self-medicating with legal and non-legal marijuana.
American Lobbyists Are Fighting to Halt the Availability of Affordable Medicine to the 3rd World
India, when allowed to be left to its own devices, has done an incredible job at keeping medicine cheap enough so people in the country can afford it. It avoids handing out patents for drugs unless they are completely new or have some sort...