Category: North America
by Burt Walker The War on Drugs is an unmitigated failure and has exacerbated the addiction crisis gripping America. Legalization offers a solution. In April 2016 my then-23-year-old daughter told me she was an addict and asked for my help. This began a journey of heartache, frustration, fear, and anger. My desperate search for information […]
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Why do over 15 million people die prematurely each year due to noncommunicable diseases (NCD), and what can be done about that?
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There are few downsides to a Universal Pharmacare programme, as Professor Gordon Guyatt, university professor and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences points out. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Who does or would benefit from universal pharmacare coverage? I ask these questions because of the conversation in Canada at the moment. Canada has a national […]
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