Black box warnings, or boxed warnings, are serious warnings that come from the FDA. They are meant to alert people about drug effects that may be dangerous. Specific drugs may carry a boxed warning, ...

Black box warnings are the FDA’s bluntest regulatory instrument short of a recall. Yet despite what headlines, pundits, and influencers often suggest, they are neither a moral verdict nor the final ...

A “black box” warning on a health product sounds pretty scary – maybe even more so when it’s suddenly being taken off the packaging. Americans were reminded of this type of public health messaging on ...

The legalization of recreational marijuana sale and use has spread dramatically since it was first adopted by Colorado and Washington in 2012. As of 2025, 24 states and the District of Columbia have ...