The Promise and Peril of Vaginal “Rejuvenation”
champja/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Erika Sherek was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016, she knew the road to recovery would be long and painful. Surgery and radiation therapy saved her life, but the treatment fundamentally changed her body. Because she stopped producing estrogen, the female sex…
Opioid Addiction Among Pregnant Women Has Quadrupled
ozgurdonmaz/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Vermont, 1 in every 20 pregnant women is addicted to opioids when she gives birth. That’s one of several striking stats from a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that finds that opioid addiction among new moms across the…
Jeff Sessions Wants to Crack Down on Fentanyl Dealers. Here’s the Problem With That.
A lethal dose of fentanyl for most drug users, according to the Drug Enforcement AdministrationDEA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has a new plan: He vows to “systematically and relentlessly prosecute” anyone dealing synthetic opioids, regardless of the amount, in ten counties hit hard by the opioid…
Court Documents Show How OxyContin’s Sales Team Pushed “Hope in a Bottle”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2007, a sales representative for Purdue Pharma visited a family doctor in Kingston, Tennessee, to urge the physician to prescribe more OxyContin. The doctor was interested in pain management, but didn’t prescribe the opioid painkiller because he’d heard that it was often resold on…
He’s Running as a Hero of the Opioid Epidemic. Here’s the Catch.
Mother Jones; Tom Williams/CQ/ZUMA; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amid calls to “drain the swamp” and “reinvent” Washington, Patrick Morrisey—the West Virginia Republican running for US Senate—often brags that no one has done more than he has to address the state’s devastating opioid epidemic. Since first working on opioid issues in 2013,…
Doc Gave Me a Startling Look Into the Opioid Crisis. Then He Was Gone.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Julia Lurie, Mother Jones reporter: When I first met Doc and Dre last August, they thought I was an undercover cop, or maybe a heroin user who was just getting started. They were standing with a group of guys under an awning on a gray, humid…