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Most Americans want restraints on drug prices
EpiPen auto-injection epinephrine pens manufactured by Mylan NV pharmaceutical company for use by severe allergy sufferers. Photo by Jim Bourg/ReutersAn overwhelming majority of Americans favor...
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What side effects? Most consumers don’t read drug risk information
Consumers do not read or have difficulty reading risk information on prescription drugs, a recent study found. Photo by Getty ImagesHow much attention do people pay to the risk information for...
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What’s next for marijuana legalization
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Lost amid November’s election results was the large number of states that legalized the use of marijuana for either recreational or medical purposes.The...
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A history of the American war on weed
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJOE DOLCE, Author, “Brave New Weed: Adventures Into the Uncharted World of Cannabis”: When my mother was upset that I was writing a book on weed, I pulled this out,...
View ArticleAs Overdoses Climbed, Big Pharma Flooded West Virginia With Painkillers
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.In the state of West Virginia, the rise of fatal overdoses from prescription drugs has been alarming and painful. Take this statistic, for...
View ArticleOn Patrol in President Duterte's War Against Drugs
This week marks six months in office for Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. Since taking power, the former mayor has lived up to his vow to crack down on drugs going after drug users, dealers and...
View ArticleBribes on the Border
For eight years between between 2006 and 2014, James Tomsheck served as the chief of internal affairs of US Customs and Border Protection at the Department of Homeland Security, a role that brought him...
View ArticleThe Global Consequences of the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
Jonathan Capehart guest hosts today!Harriet Ryan, investigative reporter for The Los Angeles Times, joins us to discuss her three-part series, co-written with Lisa Girion and Scott Glover, about...
View ArticleThe Future For Trump's Children, Dev Patel, Roxane Gay, the Global Opioid...
Jonathan Capehart guest hosts!William D. Cohan, special correspondent to Vanity Fair, and contributing editor Sarah Ellison join us to discuss their reporting on Donald Trump’s children for the...
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What happens if kratom becomes illegal?
A Thai Malay Muslim drug user breaks up the kratom leaf into a pan to form part of a popular cheap narcotic drink called 4 x 100 on September 1, 2011, in Narwathiwat, southern Thailand. Photo by Paula...
View ArticleCorporate Foreign Policy; Travel Ban Threatens Higher Ed; 'This Morning I...
Coming up on today's show:Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent for CNN, and McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic, discuss all the latest national political news.Parag Khanna,...
View ArticleReshaping Obamacare, The War on Drugs, A Pioneering President
Coming up on today's show:Republicans in the House of Representatives released the text of a bill Monday night that would remake the Affordable Care Act in the coming years. Takeaway Washington...
View ArticleA (Long) History of American Drug Panics
The War on Drugs has been fueled as much by political rhetoric and media frenzy as it has by policy. Since Nixon's address to Congress in 1971, the American public has experienced a slew of drug...
View ArticleThe Man Who Declared War On Drugs
The origins of the seemingly eternal War on Drugs can be traced back to one man: Harry Anslinger, the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Beginning in 1930s, when America’s attitudes...
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Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Drugs Edition
Drugs: they’re everywhere. In our medicine cabinets, the books we read, the movies we watch, and the communities in which we live. What isn’t common: reliable and accurate information about drug use...
View ArticleThis American War on Drugs
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has signaled that he'd like to revamp the War on Drugs. We take a look at the history of the battle, and how sensational media depictions of crack, heroin, and meth have...
View ArticleA Case for Law Enforcement
President Trump has long argued that a US-Mexico border wall will bring an end to drug epidemics in the US. But it's clear that that proposal -- and indiscriminately jailing those who use illicit drugs...
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Tensions High at 1969 Conference on Marijuana
Future New York City Mayor Ed Koch opens this 1969 Conference on Marijuana at the Guggenheim Hall of the Mount Sinai Medical Center School of Nursing.1 He hopes it will be“a blue-ribbon panel to...
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Why Trump’s embrace of Duterte is raising alarm
Watch VideoWILLIAM BRANGHAM: Now: the president’s weekend phone call with the president of the Philippines and the uproar that has ensued.SEAN SPICER, White House Press Secretary: There’s a lot that...
View ArticleThis Professor Teaches About Drug Use, Including His Own
Dr. Carl Hart, a neuroscientist and the chair of Columbia University's Department of Psychology, likes to tackle stereotypes. That's one reason why he teaches his class "Drugs and Behavior" at 8:40 in...
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