Health Care

Anti-racist action in a racist epidemic

As the coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads around the world, in its wake comes another kind of epidemic -- an outbreak of…

March 3, 2020

China mobilizes to combat coronavirus

Since a new strain of pneumonia-causing virus hit China in late December, there has been a massive response by the…

January 28, 2020

Plant closings, poverty and overdose deaths

The Journal of the American Medical Association published a study on Dec. 30 on the correlation between automobile plant closings…

January 6, 2020

Big pharma + big money = no blame

This commentary was originally posted on prisonradio.org on Sept. 15.  In recent days, we’ve heard of proposed settlements in civil…

September 29, 2019

In struggle over Safehouse, opioid users’ lives at stake

For decades, Philadelphia has been known as a heroin haven, with heroin of such high quality that people moved there…

September 19, 2019

States launch lawsuits over opioid epidemic

If you ask people with substance use disorders -- more colloquially, addictions -- what caused their disorders, you’ll most likely…

September 12, 2019

Eastern Kentucky trans people support locked out Harlan County coal miners

Lill is a resident of Harlan County, Ky., and a member of a transgender anarchist support group (blackjewelminersblockade on Instagram)…

August 29, 2019

Legislators attack treatment for opioid use disorder

Buprenorphine, the main active ingredient in the products Suboxone, Subutex, Sublocade, Zubsolv and Bunavail, is considered one of the gold-standard…

July 4, 2019

Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba challenges Trump’s travel restrictions

Members of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization/Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba received a warm and enthusiastic welcome…

June 18, 2019

Workers in Finland resist attack on health care system

The author is vice chair of the Communist League (Finland). Workers World requested he write this article for U.S. readers…

May 16, 2019