EMILY ERIN DAVIS: ‘Wish You the Best’ – The Abortion Drug Crisis in America

She ordered drugs online. There were no doctors, no screenings, no questions asked. A few days later, an unexplained package arrived at her door. Among them were a handful of abortion medications wrapped in small packets and handwritten notes simply read. “We wish you the best.” No one will follow up. No one even knew […]

San Francisco ties clean needle distribution for drug users to treatment

San Francisco – San Francisco Mayor Daniel Luley, who won the election in November on a pledge to crack down on the city’s fentanyl crisis, announced on Wednesday a new public health policy that will further push drug users for clean needles and other supplies linked to addiction. The new policy for effective April 30th […]

L.A. programs that help drug users await fate during Trump era

Samson Tafolo’s final count read 119. For 45 minutes he wrapped a wagon filled with mini water bottles, hemp cigarettes and other hygiene products around the skidrow and handed out supplies to maintain a tally of everyone he served on his usual route. Tafolo and other leaders of the Sidewalk Project are headquartered several blocks […]

Woman Named To Powerful Pfizer Position Was One Of America’s Top Drug Regulators

Patrizia Cabazzoni, former director of the Food and Drug Administration Center’s Drug Evaluation and Research Center, will serve as Pfizer’s chief medical officer, the company announced Monday. Cabazzoni Retirement From the FDA, just before President Trump took office in January. She is rejoining Pfizer after the past eight years of company stints to work in […]