Flawed Drug Policy Highlights Myths Around Race and Drugs

Flawed Drug Policy Highlights Myths Around Race and Drugs

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In a recent piece for The New York Times, psychology professor and drug researcher Carl Hart argues that misconceptions about the impacts of crack cocaine, and drugs more generally, on the black community were perpetuated by black thinkers and …
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Drug prices jump again while other health costs decline

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The Food and Drug Administration has approved 70 new drugs in the past two years, including a breakthrough treatment of cystic fibrosis and the first drug for a common form of skin cancer. The top-selling drugs reflect the strategy of the $ 310 billion …
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Go with your gut

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061912_Turnbaugh_605.jpg. File photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer. In a recent paper in Cell, Peter Turnbaugh (pictured) and fellow researchers show that as drugs are administered, the activity of human gut microbes can change dramatically …
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