America has largely accepted the facts about marijuana but a stubborn opposition refuses to. There has been a huge change in public opinion about legal marijuana over the past 20 years but the tired arguments against it — it’s a gateway drug, legalizing weed leads to more underage use, THC causes mental illness, etc —...
Here’s how to fix America’s painkiller problem — without leaving pain patients behind. By German Lopez for VOX, Illustrations by Javier Zarracina his year, researchers uncovered a simple method for getting doctors to reduce profligate prescriptions of drugs like OxyContin and Percocet that have contributed to America’s opioid epidemic: informing doctors that one of their patients had...