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An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part I

Physician's Weekly

Bob’s journey here begins in 2019 — the first day of high school for his daughter, Mary. In January of last year, Cole went to a Walgreens in Appleton, Wisconsin, to get refills on the medication he used to control his asthma. He’d been taking it for years, and he expected to pay about seventy bucks. He left without it.

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Episode 275: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 19 – Reframing the Opioid Epidemic: Anti-Racist Praxis, Racial Health Inequities, and Harm Reduction

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Between 2007 – 2019, Black individuals experienced a higher death rate for opioid overdose deaths than any other racial or ethnic group. One example that is presented involves the complicated relationship between the United States and Chinese immigrants and farmworkers in California.