by Jessica Casebolt | May 10, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves, Uncategorized
Marijuana and other products containing THC have grown more potent and more dangerous as legalization has made them more widely available. Although decades ago, the THC content of weed was commonly less than 1.5 percent, some products on the market today are more than...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 10, 2023 | D.C. News, Tea Leaves
The White House isn’t quite ready to launch its new pandemic response office for a neat handoff at the end of the Covid-19 public health emergency, White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha told reporters Tuesday. Jha said White House officials are in the...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 9, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Telehealth rules created during the pandemic that allowed for the prescribing of controlled substances without an in-person visit will stay in place as is until November 11. The Drug Enforcement Administration filed the rule to extend telehealth flexibilities, which...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 9, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
The U.S. government will pay more than $5 million for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by supervised injection sites, places where people can use heroin and other illegal drugs and be revived if they take too much. The grant funding will be...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 9, 2023 | Mental Health, Tea Leaves
Two nonprofits and Teva Pharmaceuticals are expanding donations of medications for anxiety and depression to seven new states, potentially reaching more than 650,000 uninsured patients through more than 400 clinics. Launched last summer with the humanitarian...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 8, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
As U.S. health regulators are weighing thefirst-ever request to make a birth control pill available without a prescription, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists on Friday expressed skepticism about whether the birth control pill can be switched from...
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