Sens. Rick Scott (R-FL), Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced legislation Tuesday to combat the rising cost of prescription drugs and increase transparency in the health care industry.
President Donald Trump correctly said during his State of the Union Speech on Tuesday night America experienced the largest decline in prescription drug prices in 46 years.
In a Monday appearance on CBS’s “This Morning,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said if President Donald Trump “wants to do the right thing” in lowering prescription drug prices, then he is willing to work with him. “If the president wants
Preliminary data released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) over the summer suggest the rate of drug overdose deaths is declining or at least has “begun to plateau,” as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar put it last week.
As the Trump administration pushes for drug price transparency, the pharmaceutical industry is already trying to subvert the coming changes.
The simple truth of the opioid crisis is that prescription drugs have been blamed for a deadly crisis that is far more attributable to street drugs smuggled across the porous U.S. border.
It would be excessive to call the opioid crisis an orchestrated conspiracy, but it certainly does have aspects of a manufactured crisis: a problem created by politicians and then exploited by them to advance various agendas. Loose borders created the problem by allowing a tidal wave of deadly street drugs into the United States. Politicians are using the resulting crisis to attack the pharmaceutical industry and the criminal justice system. We could end up releasing an enormous number of criminals from prison because the drug epidemic put too many people in jail.
During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Representative Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) stated Democrats “are fighting to allow Medicare to negotiate for lower drug prices and for more transparency into price hikes.” Transcript as Follows: “Hi, my name is Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy, and
A study by St. Michael’s Hospital of Toronto published in June found that one in five deaths among young adults in the United States is now related to opioid drugs.
Monday on Hugh Hewitt’s syndicated radio show, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar dismissed reports claiming that President Donald Trump had dropped a campaign pledge of using Medicare to negotiate lower prices as part of his prescription drug plan.
During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) discussed prescription drug prices and argued Republicans should join Democrats in taking action to lower drug prices. Transcript as Follows: “Today, President Trump is scheduled to speak about the need to
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar pointed to short-term and association health plans during Friday’s White House press briefing as possible solutions to Obamacare and health insurance premiums reaching new heights.
Democrat Eric Schneiderman, who has now resigned as New York’s attorney general, stands accused of a wide range of aberrant behavior, including drug abuse, according to a lengthy report.
Puyallup, Washington, police suspect 31-year-old registered nurse Cora Weberg of intentionally infecting at least two patients of Good Samaritan Hospital with the hepatitis C virus, as well as stealing drugs.
The conventional wisdom on the opioid crisis is that prescription drug dependency was a major factor behind the surge of addictions and overdoses. This belief was challenged by studies demonstrating that prescription drug problems from the 1990s and 2000s were fading before the current opioid crisis began, and the real problem today is with street drugs like heroin and fentanyl. New research highlights a very sharp dividing line between the earlier pill problem and today’s drug crisis: OxyContin was reformulated in 2010 to cut down on abuse, so addicts turned to heroin.
More studies of the opioid crisis are stressing that prescription painkillers are not the driving force behind increased drug abuse and overdose deaths, contrary to a hardening media and political consensus that doctors and drug companies are the primary villains of the opioid saga.
A toxicology report issued Monday revealed that golf legend Eldrick “Tiger” Woods had five prescription drugs in his system when police found him sleeping in the driver’s seat of his vehicle over the Memorial Day weekend.
Medicaid is gently tugging tens of thousands of healthy Americans to their early deaths each year, according to analysts who are trying to explain the massive and unprecedented spike in deaths among middle-aged Americans in post-industrial America.
President Donald Trump met with pharmaceutical leaders on Tuesday, vowing that he would lower the costs of prescription drugs in the country by increasing competition.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – The number of newborn babies who have been exposed to drugs and alcohol in Louisiana has tripled since 2008, mostly due to the massive rise and popularity of heroin being trafficked into the state through the U.S. southern border.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Prescription pain-killers are more prevalent than people in Louisiana; according to a new report that shows widespread opioid issues across eight states.
In a reported bid to protect public health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has enlisted a Texas Tech University food center to monitor commercially-sold meat for pathogens and superbugs.
Voters in California will face a tidal wave of ballot measures in the November general election, on issues from the death penalty and condoms to marijuana and plastic bags.
White people are suddenly dying much younger than before, and each new set of data shows the toll reaching much farther than ever imagined by our best-and-brightest, secular, Ivy League, technocratic, would-be guardians throughout the federal government.
Hillary Clinton battled Bernie Sanders in Sunday night’s debate to present herself as a left-wing torchbearer of President Obama’s legacy on health care.
A researcher who investigated the new study that shows increased death rates among middle-aged, middle-class whites has revealed something even more jarring — since 2005, all the extra dead were women, not men.
The number of deaths from drug overdose in the United States has surpassed those from firearms and motor vehicle accidents each year since 2008, according to a newly released report published by the Department of Justice’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
“Pain is part of life” is not what the culture of 2015 wants to hear, and it’s bound to raise sarcastic chuckles as the impromptu slogan of Bush’s presidential campaign… but he’s right, and the quest to avoid pain has gone far beyond the point of diminishing returns. This is true of every form of discomfort – from physical and emotional pain, to economic anxiety and the “trigger words” culture of hyper-sensitivity on campus.
Breitbart News previously reported that 67-year-old Harvey Lembo bought a gun on the morning of August 31 for self-defense then shot an alleged burglar hours later whom he believes was trying to steal his painkillers.
According to court documents obtained by the Associated Press, Bill Cosby admitted in a 2005 deposition that he previously purchased powerful sedatives with the intent of giving them to young women he wished to have sex with.
Covered California, the Golden State’s exchange for Obamacare, has announced that it will cap the price of prescription drugs for the 2.2 million Californians who have bought individual insurance plans.
