The legislation [the federal Inflation Reduction Act passed by Congress in August] establishes other requirements to lower drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries, about three-quarters of whom have Part D plans...

a new study from researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that elderly Black and Hispanic patients with advanced cancer are less likely than white patients to receive opioid medications for pain
relief in the last weeks of their lives...

How many innocent lives must be harmed before the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention changes course on prescription opioids?

Elizabethtown, KY—Hosparus Health is branching out to provide even more services to those
who need long-term care in the region.

Most patients who are educated about potential drug harms and medication self-advocacy
skills report a high level of confidence in discussing concerns with their doctors and
deprescribing,

Between the mid-1990s and the early 2010s, the number of opioid prescriptions written for
Americans roughly doubled, driven by dishonest pharmaceutical marketing campaigns and
unscrupulous entrepreneurs who opened so-called pill mills to sell drugs...

A Virginia Democrat is proposing to make psilocybin, the hallucinogenic substance found in “magic mushrooms,” available for medical purposes and reduce possession of the psychedelic drug from a felony to a misdemeanor...

About a third of Americans have used medical marijuana to deal with chronic pain, a new study
says...

The curriculum was set, the students were enrolled and Oregon officials had
signed off on nearly every detail of training for the first class of “magic” mushroom facilitators
seeking state certification...