Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., are urging the Drug Enforcement Administration to extend federal telemedicine flexibilities for prescribing controlled substances before they ...

This week, as part of the bill to reopen the federal government, a bipartisan coalition ended the legal carve-out that allowed stores to sell intoxicating hemp products. By closing this loophole, ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. The Trump administration appears poised to extend a temporary, Covid-era rule allowing health providers to prescribe certain controlled ...

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. But other petitions were not so ...

A Kansas City, Kansas, pharmacy has agreed to pay $200,000 to settle federal allegations that it failed to properly track controlled substances.Daniel Reif, Inc., which operates as The Medicine Shoppe ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - A Kansas City, Kansas, man entered a civil agreement with the federal government Monday, agreeing to pay $200,000 to resolve allegations his pharmacy violated the civil ...

President Donald Trump said on Monday that he is "looking at" the possibility of reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. "We're looking at reclassification," the president said at a press ...

For more than 50 years, dozens of “controlled substances,” including various pharmaceutical products as well as marijuana, cocaine, heroin and everything in between, have been shoe-horned into five ...

“Gas station heroin” took another hit on Wednesday as HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s FDA recommended a scheduling action to control certain 7-hydroxymitragynine (also known as 7-OH ) products ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA commissioner described 7-OH as a “synthetic concentrated byproduct of kratom.” The compound has been ...