David Herzberg

Aug 30, 2023 | thenation.com | Lizzie Tribone |Katrina vanden Heuvel |Helena Hansen |David Herzberg

Society / Cash transfer programs are forging a path for guaranteed income. Ad PolicyA wave of new cash transfer programs that target pregnant and postpartum people is emerging across the United States, offering a lifeline to low-income families and reviving the discussion on the afterlife of pandemic-era expanded earned income and child tax credits.

Aug 28, 2023 | thenation.com | Jon Wiener |Helena Hansen |Jules Netherland |David Herzberg

Jon Wiener: I’ve read a lot of memoirs written by sixties people and virtually all trace the origins of their activism to the same moment: the sit-in movement in the spring of 1960. But your epiphany, as you call it, the shock of recognition that spurred you to take your first political act, came well before 1960, although it did involve the Civil Rights Movement. Tell us about your epiphany, and how old you were at the time. Drew Faust: I was nine.

Aug 28, 2023 | thenation.com | Helena Hansen |Jules Netherland |David Herzberg |Amanda Moore

In America today, while the “opioid crisis” is still commonly associated with white people, overdose deaths are increasing the fastest in Black and brown communities. As the overdose rate climbs, government at all levels has been far slow to implement strategies that we already know can reduce harms. It raises a haunting historical specter: Will overdoses be one more white crisis that ultimately delivers the worst harms to Black and brown people?

Aug 19, 2023 | newsrnd.com | David Herzberg

By David Herzberg, University at Buffalo associate professor, opioid expert* - The ConversationYou may have heard of the Sackler family and the role they and their private company, Purdue Pharma, played in the opioid crisis. Purdue is infamous for aggressive sales marketing with its powerful long-acting opioid OxyContin. Among their tactics is co-opting legitimate medical organizations to spread messages that exaggerate the drug's efficacy and underestimate its risks of addiction.

Aug 15, 2023 | theconversation.com | David Herzberg

Es posible que haya oído hablar de la familia Sackler y del papel que ellos y su empresa privada, Purdue Pharma, desempeñaron en la crisis de los opioides. Purdue es tristemente célebre por el agresivo marketing de venta que realizó con su potente opioide de acción prolongada OxyContin. Entre sus tácticas se encuentra la cooptación de organizaciones médicas legítimas para difundir mensajes que exageran la eficacia del fármaco y subestiman sus riesgos de adicción.