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Big Tobacco BIGGER Epidemic was one of the second prize high school western division winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Agamroop Kaur, a junior at Dougherty Valley High School in…

C-SPAN’s Cities Tour shared stories from American history of people around the country living on the edge of morality.

Representative Madeleine Dean (D-PA) and her son Harry Cunnane discussed his drug addiction and recovery. This virtual program was hosted by Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.

Pew Charitable Trusts' Beth Connolly discussed recent developments in the nation’s opioid epidemic.

Government Accountability Office (GAO) Health Care Director Mary Denigan-Macauley testified on the Food and Drug Administration’s foreign drug inspection program. She outlined the…

Former prosecutor Charlotte Bismuth recounted the criminal case against Dr. Stan Li, a pain management doctor convicted of the manslaughter of two patients who overdosed on opioids. This…

Top executives of Purdue Pharma, a U.S. pharmaceutical company that makes OxyContin, testified about their role in the opioid epidemic at a virtual House Oversight Committee hearing. The company…

Viewers commented on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) previous-day press release saying that the number of drug overdoses in the U.S. had reached record numbers during…

Viewers commented on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) previous-day press release saying that the number of drug overdoses in the U.S. had reached record numbers during…

Dr. Joel Zinberg, a medical doctor and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discussed his Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he argued against government mandates for the…

The Food and Drug Administration hosted a virtual open meeting to discuss Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). Members of the Vaccines and Related Biological…

Viewers reacted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) giving the green light to the Pfizer vaccine to help curb the coronavirus pandemic.

Viewers reacted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) giving the green light to the Pfizer vaccine to help curb the coronavirus pandemic.

The House debated a proposal to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. The bill, H.R. 3884, leaves state laws on cannabis unchanged abd would provide some federal oversight of…

Viewers responded to the question, “What do you think about the House voting for federal marijuana decriminalization?” The previous day, the House voted 228-164 to approve legislation to…

The Justice Department held a news conference announcing the settlement reached with Purdue Pharma over their role in the opioid epidemic. Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen announced…

First lady Melania Trump delivered remarks at the White House in honor of National Recovery Month. White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow also spoke about his struggle…

Journalist Erica Barnett looked at addiction in America and discussed her own struggles with alcoholism. This virtual program was sponsored by Town Hall Seattle.

Beth Connolly talked about how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted the opioid epidemic.

Dr. Caleb Alexander, professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting drug and alcohol addiction.