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Opinion Desk

Addiction, Mental Illness

  1. 48 Million Americans Live With Addiction. Very Few Get Help. Here’s How to Change That. (12/13/23)

  2. Repeal the Crackhouse Statute (12/22/23)

  3. The Case for Harm Reduction, Editorial

  4. The Case for Harm Reduction (2/22/23 - SR Print Cover)

  5. To End the War on Drugs, Change these Laws (12/12/22)

  6. The Failed Quest for Community Mental Health (10/4/22)

  7. The Harris Project (6/24/22 - SR Print Cover 7/3)

  8. In the Opioid Epidemic, More Causes for Hope (8/8/21)

  9. Big Pharma is Starting to Pay for the Opioid Crisis. Make Those Payments Count

  10. Fear, Loathing, Fentanyl Exposure

  11. Want to Reduce Overdose Deaths? Get People the Medication They Need.

  12. If Addiction is a Disease, Why is Relapsing a Crime

  13. The Mothers Society Condemns

  14. The Mothers Society Condemns, II

  15. The Crazy Talk About Asylums

Infectious Disease

  1. To Fight Polio, Stop Otherizing Orthodox Communities (8/17/22)

  2. First Shots For All Over Boosters For Some (9/25/21 - Editorial)

  3. Global Vaccine Equity (9/25/21 - Sunday Review)

  4. Get Vaccinated. Get Masked. It’s the Only Way Out of This Mess (8/5/21)

  5. It’s too soon to declare victory (7/4/21)

  6. The U.S. is failing a moral test on vaccines (5/14/21)

  7. The world needs many more coronavirus vaccines (4/24/21)

  8. Pausing JnJ makes sense (4/13/21)

  9. More shots are coming. We need to address barriers to vaccination (2/26/21)

  10. What are the vaccine roadblocks where you live (2/25/21)

  11. Governors should not ease restrictions yet (2/10/21)

  12. We are flying blind on vaccine rollout (2/7/21)

  13. The New President Has a Covid Plan (1/16/21)

  14. Vaccines Are Going to Waste (12/31/20)

  15. We need more and better genomic surveillance (12/22/20)

  16. Vaccination will be even more challenging than Vaccines (12/09/20)

  17. The Third Surge Arrives (11/16/20)

  18. How to Holiday During Covid (Hint: Stay Home) (10/29/20)

  19. The Covid Race Gap, Explained (10/3/20 - Sunday Review Cover)

  20. What Comes Next (9/18/20 - Sunday Review Cover)

  21. President Trump is a Lying Liar (9/9/20)

  22. How Many of These 68,000 Lives Could Have Been Saved (9/5/20)

  23. Your Coronavirus Testing Questions Answered (8/26/20)

  24. We Need A National Testing Plan (8/16/20)

  25. America Could Control The Pandemic by October (8/8/20)

  26. Trump’s Denialism is Going to Get Us Killed (6/23/20)

  27. Instead of Canceling the W.H.O., How About Fixing It (6/13/20)

  28. Covid-19’s Biggest Lesson: Americans Need Public Health for All (4/9/20)

  29. How America Can Reopen (3/30/20)

  30. The Epic Failure of Coronavirus Testing (3/19/20)

  31. Stop Saying Everything is Under Control (3/17/20)

  32. It’s Time to Declare a National Emergency (3/12/20)

  33. Coronavirus & The Public Charge Rule (3/6/20)

  34. Here Comes the Coronavirus Pandemic (2/29/20)

  35. Is the World Ready for Coronavirus (1/29/20)

  36. We Know How to Conquer Tuberculosis

  37. The Fatal Flaw in Trump’s HIV Plan

  38. Measles Is Making A Comeback. Here’s How to Stop It.

  39. How to Inoculate Against the Anti-Vaxxers

  40. Time is Running Out to Stop Ebola’s Spread

  41. Peter Hotez Is Not A Sorcerer

  42. Ebola, Tuberculosis, Cures and Hurdles

  43. Ebola, Amnesia and Donald Trump (5/22/18)

Regulatory

  1. Save America’s Patent System (4/16/2022)

  2. When Science Is Pushed Aside (10/16/20)

  3. The F.D.A. Commissioner’s Fuzzy Math (8/25/20)

  4. Politicizing Regulatory Policy Will Cost American Lives (8/24/20)

  5. The F.D.A. is in Trouble. Here’s How to Fix It (1/11/20)

  6. How Has This Pesticide Not Been Banned

  7. A $2 Million Drug, Bad Data & the F.D.A.’s Credibility Problem

  8. It’s Time For a Reckoning on Medical Devices.

  9. Cosmetic Regulations Need an Update

  10. Easier Drug Approvals are Not Cutting Drug Prices

  11. Is Baby Powder Safe? Does Industry Even Care?

  12. Don’t Ban E-cigs

  13. We Still Don’t Know How Safe Vaping Is

  14. Big Tobacco’s Bait & Switch

Gun Violence

  1. Even Before the Tears Stopped, She Took Action

  2. Why Don’t We Know More About Gun Safety

  3. Another Young Voice Silenced By Bullets

  4. We Know How To Address School Shootings. So Why Aren't We?

Pharmaceuticals

  1. Pelosi’s Drug Pricing Bill is Good

  2. Sound, Fury, and Prescription Drugs

  3. Gilead’s Gift Horse

  4. It’s Time for Pharmaceutical Companies to Have Their Big Tobacco Moment

  5. The News on Drug Prices? Nothing Good

  6. How the Government Can Lower Drug Prices

Health Policy

  1. Employer-Based Insurance, Meet Massive Unemployment (6/29/20)

  2. The Nurses Calling for Medicare-for-All

  3. How Much Will Americans Sacrifice for Good Health Care

  4. A Voter’s Guide to Health Policy

  5. Do Poor People Have a Right to Health Care?

  6. The Quiet War Against Reliable Medical Information

  7. The Health Care Stalkers

  8. Medicaid's Nickel-and-Dime Routine

  9. G.O.P. Wants Hungry Kids to Fund Tax Cuts

Biotech / Bioethics

  1. Republicans Once Supported Fetal Tissue Research

  2. This Editorial is Not About Designer Babies

  3. 23andMe

  4. Should Scientists Toy With the Secret of Life

  5. Medicine’s Financial Contamination

Migrant Children

  1. Of Flores & Flu Shots

  2. Hundreds of Children Rot In The Desert

  3. An Unhealthy Plan to Drive Out Immigrants

  4. Coming of Age in American Detention

  5. Don't Let Migrant Kids Rot

Misc

  1. She Beat Cancer. Now She’s in Another Fight For Her Life

  2. A Promise Step In Tackling Childhood Cancer

  3. Why Breast Feeding Scares Donald Trump

Personal Essays

  1. Me, My Twin, and Donald Trump (11/4/20)

  2. The World Lost Emile Bruneau When We Needed Him Most (11/2/20)

  3. Living with Alzheimer’s