Covid isn’t merely overshadowing the drug overdose crisis—it’s directly worsening it.

As the world reels from the Covid-19 pandemic, two things have become very clear: the health impacts of the disease are devastating, but the aggressive social distancing policies currently being used to flatten the curve also have serious costs. As a result, the question of when and how to reopen the nation is on everyone’s mind. Do we open quickly in an effort to kick-start the economy? Or do we remain under lockdown as long as possible to stop the spread of the virus?

The chaos that enveloped the Covid-19 response and the loss of trust in experts has laid bare the need for a shift in communicating the moral questions that confront our...

Bioethics With Bigger Impact November 15, 2022 Event transcript Perspectives in Biology and Medicine The chaos that enveloped the Covid-19 response and the loss of trust in experts has laid...

Hastings Center research scholar Nancy Berlinger will be participating in Stanford’s INFODEMIC conference on Social Media and Covid-19 Misinformation. With discussants: Dr. Travis Rieder, Dr. Nancy Berlinger, and Dr. Arthur...

The nationwide surge in drug abuse predates the Covid-19 pandemic but has risen to new highs during it. Causes of the crisis–physician prescribing habits and societal problems like poverty and...

As the opioid crisis reaches a fever pitch, public perception often lumps chronic pain patients and opioid abusers under the stigma-tainted umbrella of drug user. But the full picture of human interaction with pain, pain management, and addiction is far from black and white. In its most recent narrative symposium, Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics published personal stories from those living with chronic pain or opioid abuse disorder. Both groups comment on their need for medical treatment and ethical care.