USA. How Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company Antonio Gracias is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valley’s right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMA. (T…

USA. Top Democratic senator launches inquiry into for-profit methadone clinics - Probe to examine business practices, treatment of patients at major chains.  (…) As an addiction treatment, methadone is only available at roughly 2,000 spec…

USA. It Was a Promising Addiction Treatment. Many Patients Never Got It. How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. (New York Times…

USA/Deutschland. Fight Over Claimed Ownership of Drug-Checking Technology People have always had to fight for the right to test their drugs, to get information about whether they’re likely to cause a horrendously intense trip, or death. But now, tw…

Opioide in Deutschland - Das Geschäft mit den Schmerzen (Podcast) Tramadol ist eines der am häufigsten verschriebenen Schmerzmittel in Deutschland und wurde zur Partydroge. Warum sieht die zuständige Behörde weg? Der Podcast »Firewall« rekonstruier…

Gilead Finalizes Agreement With the Global Fund to Accelerate Access to Twice-Yearly Lenacapavir for HIV Prevention for up to Two Million People in Primarily Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries Strategic Partnership Agreement is Part of Gilead’s…