I’m bullish on synthetic drugs. For years, I have argued that synthetic drugs — “man-made” illicit drugs produced from precursor chemicals — are inevitable given their advantages over traditional, ...

Scientists have engineered tobacco plants to produce five powerful psychedelic compounds normally found in other plants, fungi and animals in a single crop. They argue that using plants to manufacture ...

The FDA is performing fewer inspections on generic drug plants, which raises concerns over the safety and quality of generic medications on the market, according to an investigative report from ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators responsible for the safety of the U.S. drug supply are still struggling to get back to where they were in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic upended factory ...

“We often say that anybody who doesn’t believe that herbal medicines work has obviously never tried morphine,” Professor John Newton, consultant public health physician and Garden Fellow at The Royal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The U.S. spent $722.5 billion on pharmaceuticals in 2023. Although brand-name drugs consume four out of every 5 dollars America ...

I’m bullish on synthetic drugs. For years, I have argued that synthetic drugs — “man-made” illicit drugs produced from precursor chemicals — are inevitable given their advantages over traditional, ...