Browsing: heroin

Is weed a schedule 5 drug? What about ketamine or gabapentin? Here is a list of drugs by schedule from 1 – 5. Drugs in Schedules IV (4) and V (5) are considered to be the highest risk for abuse, addiction or harm.

A long-simmering battle between the FDA, DEA and patient advocates over the popular, yet controversial, herbal supplement kratom may soon…

Synthetic opioids, specifically illicit fentanyl, caused more overdose deaths in the US alone than prescription opioids in 2016, according to…

Over half of Americans are misusing their prescription drugs — such as taking too much of a drug they are…

This week, Su and Jonathan discuss why MedShadow is sponsoring a petition asking the DEA to change marijuana from a…

Many Rx opioids claim to be abuse deterrent, but the reality is they do little to curb this. A better…

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

Although the US is in the midst of a prescription opioid epidemic, a recent analysis of data reveals that the…

There’s a straight line between the overprescribing of opioid painkillers and the devastating crisis of heroin addiction in the US.…

A documentary filmmaker uses the death of his brother, a WWE star, as the starting point to look at the…