The Spiking Cost of Insulin Is Highway Robbery
A new Health Care Cost Institute study to be released next week found the cost of insulin per patient almost doubled…
Drug Prices Just Keep Going Up
Happy New Year! Your meds might cost more this year, starting yesterday. According to the Wall Street Journal,…
So What If Kids Vape?
Time passes, technology advances, and next thing you know you have newspapers writing scaremongering stories about…
Ex-Handler Says in Standup Set That Trump Was ‘Speed Freak’ Who Railed Lines of Adderall
A former talent handler for President Donald Trump that worked with him and his family during the 1990s and the early…
Calling Out Big Pharma for Trying to Profit Off the Opioid Crisis Actually Worked
A Big Pharma company is lowering the price of its opioid overdose drug after getting dragged through the mud by a pair…
Prototypical evil big tobacco company Altria (formerly Philip Morris) has invested $1.8 billion in a weed company. Big…
U.S. Border Policy on Pot Is About to Get Even Stupider
As pot is legalized in Canada, U.S. drug laws have never looked so absurd. Todd Owen, an officer in the Office of Field…
Sorry Folks, but You Can't Bring Legal Weed in From Canada
This October, Canada will officially legalize the recreational use of pot. It will then be legal to use weed…
The Opioid Crisis Is Fueling a Record Number of Drug Overdoses
Depressing new numbers from the Center for Disease Control estimate that 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last…
Workplace Injuries Tied to Increased Chance of Opiate Overdose In Landmark New Study
A study released Wednesday by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health shows that workers in industries with…
Mandatory Drug Testing for New Moms Is a Slippery Slope
Baltimore County resident Elizabeth Eden was in labor when her doctor informed her that she’d tested positive for…
New Jersey Is on the Path to Legalizing Weed
Today, New Jersey’s attorney general announced that all weed cases in municipal courts across the state would be…
Splinter's First Crimes
First up: a run-down of the first things we ever did wrong in the eyes of the law.
Immigration Prosecutions Are
Diverting Resources from Drug Cases, Report Says
The Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy ordering prosecutors to file charges on every single person who…
14 Airmen Were Tripping Balls on LSD While Assigned to Guard America's Nukes
Fourteen members of the Air Force tasked with guarding a nuclear weapons silo in Wyoming were disciplined as part of a…
The Opioid Crisis is Putting More Women in Prison
Welcome to the opioid-fueled prison industrial complex.
Hero Cop Does Right Thing
Here is a tweet from the official account of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, one of the major unions representing…
What You Need to Know About April 20
Today is April 20— “4/20,” in street slang, a day on which the traditional writing of the date coincides with the…
San Francisco Takes a Big Step Forward in Dealing With the Crimes of the War on Drugs
Here’s a bit of good news as we recover from our State of the Union-induced hangovers: San Francisco will retroactively…
Grand Jury Indicts Baltimore Cop Caught Appearing to Plant Evidence by His Own Body Camera
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