On AlterNet: medication

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "medication"

Soldiers Are Coming Home Injured and Addicted -- Will We Pay Our Debt to Our Vets?

Katie Drummond, The Fix. May 29, 2012.

Soldiers come home from the two wars with a staggering rate of brain injuries and the addictions paired with them, but to treat them could cost $1 trillion.

Would We Have Drugged Up Einstein? How Anti-Authoritarianism Is Deemed a Mental Health Problem

Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. February 20, 2012.

We are increasingly marketing drugs that essentially "cure" anti-authoritarians.

Do You Know Where Your Medicine Came From? Over 40% of Pills Made Overseas -- Many in Unregulated Factories

Paul Tullis, Miller-McCune Magazine. January 9, 2012.

Here's a look a look at where the stuff in your medicine cabinet comes from.

Eight Reasons US Healthcare Costs 96% More Than Cuba's--With the Same Results

Don Fitz, AlterNet. December 9, 2010.

Why does Cuba's healthcare system do so much with so little money--while we do so little with so much? The author visits Cuba, and revisits US health costs, to find out.