Tracy Damron was caught with several bags of medication during a bag check in March 2024, according to court documents.

Today is a good day for potheads, and a great one for the nation’s state-regulated marijuana businesses. In a historic move, the federal government will reclassify cannabis to a more lenient category.

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, ...

Telehealth providers are receiving a flood of federal relief this week. As the government reopens its doors, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) also appears ready to issue another temporary ...

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 ...

“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 ...