Public health advocates urge Global Fund to end Heineken partnership Concerned over a new partnership between the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and Heineken, three public health networks have recently sent an open joint letter to the Gl…

USA. Drug Industry Wages Opioid Fight Using an Anti-Addiction Ally As Minnesota lawmakers prepared to push a proposed tax on opioid sales in November, the pharmaceutical industry lobbyists who opposed the bill set up a meeting with its sponsors, an…

USA. OxyContin maker will stop promoting opioids to doctors The maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin said it will stop marketing opioid drugs to doctors, a surprise reversal following lawsuits that blamed the company for helping trigger the c…

USA. Milliardenmarkt Cannabis - Das große Geschäft mit dem Kiffen (Audio) Mit der Legalisierung des Konsums von Cannabis auch als reines Genussmittel in Kalifornien erwarten Marktexperten eine satte Umsatzsteigerung und einen Job-Boom in…

Kanada. Cannabis growers in marijuana mega-merger Two Canadian marijuana growers are hoping to get high on profit after agreeing to merge and create a $6bn (£4.2bn) company. (...) The deal is the largest so far in Canada's fast-growing can…

USA. Anti-smoking plan may kill cigarettes—and save Big Tobacco Imagine if cigarettes were no longer addictive and smoking itself became almost obsolete; only a tiny segment of Americans still lit up. That's the goal of an unprecedented anti-…