The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica built the Rx Inspector tool to show you.

Now a proposed bill would also require manufacturing location information on packaging for both generic and brand-name drugs.
https://www.propublica.org/article/drug-manufacturer-labels-us-senate-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #FDA #Health #Government #Senate #Law #Drugs #Medicine

Our Rx Inspector tool allows you to use information from your prescription label to locate the factory where a generic drug was made and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

Explore the tool:
https://projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Health #Drugs #Medicine #Pharmacy #Data #Research

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica built the Rx Inspector tool to show you.

Now a proposed bill would also require manufacturing location information on packaging for both generic and brand-name drugs.
https://www.propublica.org/article/drug-manufacturer-labels-us-senate-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #FDA #Health #Government #Senate #Law #Drugs #Medicine

Our Rx Inspector tool allows you to use information from your prescription label to locate the factory where a generic drug was made and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

Explore the tool:
https://projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Health #Drugs #Medicine #Pharmacy #Data #Research

Rx Inspector, our free, searchable tool, allows you to look up where your generic prescription drug was made.

From patients and doctors to researchers, it is already reshaping how people make decisions. “This is a godsend,” one professor told us.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rx-inspector-reshaping-decisions-generic-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Research #Data #Science #Medicine #Pharmacy #Journalism #Drugs

The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. The documents contain internal discussions among company employees, presentations from internal meetings, expert testimony, and evidence of Big Tech coordination with tech-funded groups, including the National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), in attempts to control the narrative in response to concerned parents.

“These unsealed documents prove Big Tech has been gaslighting and lying to the public for years

detritus of #drugs...

this #trashtodon discovery sent me down a rabbit-hole that led to (regulation of) flavored vaping, with retailers (possibly manufacturers too?) branching out to flavored NO2

#supplyChain

The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. The documents contain internal discussions among company employees, presentations from internal meetings, expert testimony, and evidence of Big Tech coordination with tech-funded groups, including the National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), in attempts to control the narrative in response to concerned parents.

“These unsealed documents prove Big Tech has been gaslighting and lying to the public for years

"[Coroner Ingrid] Giles commended the free and confidential pill testing trial under way in Victoria, describing it as a vital part of the state’s overall harm reduction strategy.

'Drug checking or pill testing services at outdoor music festivals were found to be associated with people using reduced dose sizes of drugs and being more likely to dispose of potentially dangerous drugs', she found."

#MelissaDavey, 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/28/sniffer-dogs-bag-searches-festivals-drug-danger

We have this at many #festivals in NZ.

#drugs

@rms

Consumer problems linked to mail-order drug subscriptions are on the rise in Japan, as refund and cancellation conditions are sometimes difficult to understand. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/03/japan/society/mail-order-drug-subscriptions-problems/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #ncac #drugs #medicine

Rx Inspector, our free, searchable tool, allows you to look up where your generic prescription drug was made.

From patients and doctors to researchers, it is already reshaping how people make decisions. “This is a godsend,” one professor told us.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rx-inspector-reshaping-decisions-generic-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Research #Data #Science #Medicine #Pharmacy #Journalism #Drugs

Public prosecutors have stopped short of indicting Japanese actress Ryoko Yonekura over a suspected illegal drug case. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/31/japan/crime-legal/ryoko-yonekura-drugs-not-indicted/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #ryokoyonekura #drugs

An infielder of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp professional baseball team has been arrested for allegedly using etomidate, a designated drug also known as the "zombie cigarette." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/29/japan/crime-legal/hiroshima-carp-zombie-cigarette/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #hiroshimatoyocarp #drugs #japanesepolice #hiroshima #baseball

The head of the University of Tokyo Hospital has stepped down to take responsibility following a series of bribery scandals involving staff at the institution. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/28/japan/crime-legal/university-of-tokyo-hospital-head-resign-scandal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #universityoftokyo #corruption #medicine #marijuana #drugs #cosmetics #japancosmeticassociation

I want to be clear about where I stand. I support classic psychedelics like psilocybin, psilocin, Mescaline, LSD, and also cannabis, not because I think everyone should use them, but because I believe in the freedom of consciousness.

This isn’t a war on drugs; it’s a war on consciousness itself. The stigma surrounding psychedelics has been built and reinforced by decades of fear-based media and institutional control. Simply talking about these substances bout to send some people on the Fediverse into outrage, which says more about the conditioning than about the substances themself.

I am proudly pro-psychedelics. For those struggling with depression, PTSD, or deep emotional wounds, these tools, when used with respect and proper guidance, can offer genuine healing. They can also serve as a way for anyone seeking to explore the layers of their own ego and understand themselves on a deeper level.

But as we know, society and cultures often treat altered states of mind as something dangerous, when in reality, they are among humanity’s oldest pathways to growth, connection, and awakening.

If you want to explore consciousness the way I do, you can visit https://doubleblindmag.com for insightful stories and perspectives on psychedelics, healing, and self-discovery.

You can also experience their insights in video form on their YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@DoubleBlind/videos.

#Psychedelics #Psychedelic #Psychedelia #LSD #Psilocybin #Psilocin #Mescaline #DMT #Ayahuasca #MDMA #2CB #Weed #Cannabis #Drugs