LAUNCHING THE NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY: Today, President Trump’s Drug Czar Sara Carter released the National Drug Control Strategy. The Strategy is a road map for the United States to defeat the ...

The National Drug Control Strategy is prepared biennially by the Office of National Drug Control Policy. This document provides a strategic roadmap for the Administration to continue dismantling the ...

President Trump's new TrumpRx online platform is a key part of his plan to help lower drug costs for consumers, with some polls showing two-thirds of Americans report high health care costs as their ...

Trump signed an executive order to lower drug costs by tying the prices of some medicines in the U.S. to the significantly lower ones abroad. A 2024 report by the RAND Corporation found that drug ...

Less than half of people experiencing homelessness regularly used illicit drugs in the prior six months. The most common drugs used by this population aren’t opioids but methamphetamines. And a ...

Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) is a T-cell–mediated severe cutaneous adverse reaction characterized by rash, fever, internal organ involvement, and systemic ...

Oregon has ended its experiment with drug decriminalization. Starting Sept. 1, possession of small amounts of illicit substances are once again considered a misdemeanor crime. Earlier this year, state ...

The Biden administration says Medicare recipients will save about $1.5 billion on out-of-pocket costs for medications to treat diabetes, heart disease, types of arthritis and other ailments under new ...

The Biden administration on Thursday released the results of the first Medicare drug price negotiations, a milestone in Democrats’ decadeslong quest to have the nation’s largest payer use its leverage ...

Pharmacy benefit managers are driving up drug costs for millions of people, employers and the government. Credit...Photo illustration by Jens Mortensen for The New York Times Supported by By Rebecca ...

Preliminary data released Wednesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found fatal drug overdoses in the U.S. fell by roughly 3% in 2023. That is a significant reversal from previous ...

Dr. Nora Volkow, who leads the National Institutes of Drug Abuse, would like the public to know things are getting better. Mostly. By Matt Richtel Historically speaking, it’s not a bad time to be the ...