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States that passed laws legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes saw a bigger increase in illegal marijuana use…

In this episode, MedShadow founder Su Robotti discusses her first experience as an appointee to the FDA Drug Safety and…

More than 400 pages of medical research, 11 hours of testimony and a blizzard in March. Welcome to my first…

The luxury department store Nordstrom has agreed to stop selling a line of clothing and accessories that features drug capsules…

The FDA has fast-tracked for potential approval a derivative of the party drug ketamine for major depression. The drug, esketamine,…

When doctors order an opioid for a patient for the first time, they should prescribe a short-acting one without fills…

Taking stimulant medications to treat ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder) beginning in childhood for an extended period of time does not…

Just a matter of days after more than 30 people in a Brooklyn neighborhood simultaneously overdosed on synthetic marijuana in…

49 states (Missouri is the exception) have drug monitoring programs in an effort to curb overdose deaths from prescription opioids,…

A majority of people prescribed opioid medications for pain said that they were given more than they needed, according to…