Recently, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about an over-the-counter drug and the harmful impacts of misuse. Benzedrex is a nasal decongestion inhaler and is used short term to ...

Drug use and misuse can affect your mind and body in a wide range of ways — some of them serious. If you want to change your relationship with a substance, help is available right now. Drug misuse is ...

Adults with disabilities are nearly twice as likely to misuse prescription drugs as adults without disabilities, according to West Virginia University research. Jeanette Garcia, associate professor at ...

Uncle Sam wants your drugs! This Saturday the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is sponsoring a nationwide prescription drug “take-back,” at 4,000 locations around the country. Seeking to address the fact ...

The US (particularly California, where drug overdose is still on the rise) is currently facing its largest prescription drug crisis in history; the COVID-19 pandemic largely intensified the process.

ORLANDO -- With attention focused on opioids and illicit drugs, the abuse potential of noncontrolled medications has flourished, according to a primary care practitioner who has worked extensively in ...

Adults with disabilities are nearly twice as likely to misuse prescription drugs as adults without disabilities, according to West Virginia University research. Jeanette Garcia, associate professor at ...

Researchers found that seniors who play a contact sport are 50 percent more likely than those who did not play contact sports to misuse prescription stimulants in the following decade. High school ...

Habibeh Khoshbouei does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Analysis of 20 million clinical drug tests performed by Quest Diagnostics (DGX) over the past decade shows increases in drug mixing and amphetamines use, and highlights the need for drug misuse ...

A five-year rise in the number of people registered as having issues with substance misuse here suggests a worsening crisis in Northern Ireland. The Department of Health has published its annual ...