We ask chronic pain patient advocate Barby Ingle how she prepares for a clinical encounter.

Medical education is concerningly different for practicing physicians compared with medical students.

Initial waves of opioid settlement dollars have been dispensed. Yet we still struggle to define addiction. Unless we refine our...

Data on addiction and overdoses are notoriously weak. They're subject to varying interpretations. We need to study the lived experiences...

We share our experiences reaching out to and speaking with federal and state legislators while offering nuggets of advice and...

I discuss my growing friendship with Dr. Ruan. It is a bond forged over a united fight for physician rights.

We muse on the importance of retaining credibility when standing up to false opioid narratives.

We propose new rules for journalists to integrate statistics on opioids and related overdoses into their stories.

We reflect on our experiences at the recent Association of Health Care Journalists conference in St. Louis.

I discuss my continuing struggles to overcome self-doubt and share some techniques that have proved effective.

The Illinois state assembly should support IL HB 2046, which requires a warrant prior to investigating a provider’s prescription database.

We describe in detail how sensationalism around the coverage of the opioid epidemic and the mounting overdoses takes on a...