Health

Oregon voters approved a medical marijuana initiative in 1998. Fifteen years later, in 2013, the state legislature legalized medical marijuana dispensaries -- between 100 and 200 were operating illegally in the state at the time -- and set up a framework for regulating them... Read more

Skyrocketing global health care costs render overmedication increasingly unaffordable. The wonders of modern medicine have also obscured the body's ability to heal itself. Your body produces its own drugs that can treat pain as well as a prescription. We've all heard of end... Read more

Reducing Harms and Managing Risks This week, we listen to parts of a debate in the Scottish Parliament on whether, and how, to establish supervised injection facilities and safe consumption spaces. The motion to do so was introduced by the ruling Scottish National Party, a... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with medical writer Suzanne Gordon about her book The battle for Veterans Healthcare: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Policy Making and Patient Care.                                                                                                      ... Read more