Brianna "Chickenfry" LaPaglia, in a March 10 TikTok video, got candid about the growing use of GLP-1 weight loss medication.

Cuba is grappling with a fast-growing wave of synthetic drug use that is hitting young people hard. On a recent weekday, The Associated Press visited Havana’s psychiatric hospital and saw men ...

While Cuba has a zero-tolerance policy on drugs, the use of drugs is on the rise across the island nation.

This week, Mad in America examines three studies around mental health diagnosis, psychotropic drug use, obesity, and diabetes ...

Jody L. Green, PhD, explains how regulatory decisions shape medication safety amid uptake of OTC drugs. Green also highlights ...

Many Americans reach for medicine far more often than they may realize, according to a new national survey that highlights just how common weekly medication use has become. A study published in JAMA ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown in a new study that GLP-1 medications may be ...

Look around your office, a café, or a family get-together. Statistically, two out of every three adults there took medication within the past week. A new nationwide survey of 21,000 Americans found ...

A novel approach has identified drugs in current use that could be repurposed for treating alcohol use disorder (AUD). In 2023, 28 million US adults had experienced AUD in the past year. But only ...

I was addicted to alcohol for more than 15 years. What started as binge drinking in high school and college became a pattern of blackouts, emergency room visits, regret and shame. As peers grew up and ...

Taking antibiotics can often lead to a collection of side effects: constipation, diarrhea, and bloating, for example. This happens because antibiotics are meant to target infection-causing bacteria, ...