Does Biden’s Drug Czar Pick Have What It Takes to Take on the Overdose Crisis?
John Raby/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Tuesday, President Biden nominated Dr. Rahul Gupta, who led the response to West Virginia’s devastating overdose crisis, to direct the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The nomination comes amidst news that overdose deaths…
In the Middle of an HIV Crisis, West Virginia Advances New Limits to Clean Needle Access
A needle disposal box in Huntington, West Virginia.Ricky Carioti/Washington Post via Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.West Virginia, long an epicenter of the national opioid epidemic, is currently in the middle of an HIV outbreak.…
These WhatsApp Messages Show the Opioid Crisis Was Just a Big PR Headache for the Sackler Family
Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a protest on September 12, 2019 outside Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, CT.Erik McGregor/ZUMA Wire Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The Sackler family is known…
Jared Kushner Had One Job: Solve America’s Supply Crisis. He Helped Private Companies Instead.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On March 29, President Trump held a press briefing to tout “Project Airbridge,” the administration’s new effort to organize and pay for airlifts of personal protective equipment and other medical supplies from abroad. The first of Project Airbridge’s “big, great planes” coming…
Sen. Bob Casey Tells Prosecutors to Ignore Rudy Giuliani’s “Russian Propaganda”
SMG via ZUMA Wir Two weeks after Attorney General William Barr confirmed that he had established an “intake process” for information gathered by Rudy Giuliani from Ukraine, which involves federal prosecutors based in Pennsylvania, the state’s senior senator is calling on the Justice Department to “reject” any “Russian propaganda” funneled via that channel. “These claims should…
The Opioid Settlement Will Fund Desperate Counties—But Could Come at a Steep Cost
John Moore/Getty Just hours before a high-profile federal opioid trial was to begin in Cleveland on Monday morning, drug companies reached a $260 million settlement deal with Ohio’s Summit and Cuyahoga counties. The two counties are bellwether plaintiffs—test cases for how the more than 2,700 counties, cities, and tribal lands suing drug companies in the…