More people in the U.S. are overdosing from cocaine, methamphetamine and prescription stimulants and there's no approved medication to help them get off the drugs. Amid public health warnings about ...

The use of stimulant therapy by adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was not associated with later prescription drug misuse (PDM), a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More people in the U.S. are overdosing from cocaine, methamphetamine and prescription stimulants and there's no approved ...

New prescriptions for stimulants—mostly attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder [ADHD] drugs—doubled since the COVID-19 pandemic began among adults in Ontario, according to a study published today in ...

Experts say the U.S. is currently in a "fourth wave" of opioid overdose deaths, this one marked by a sharp increase in fentanyl — a synthetic opioid — being mixed with stimulant drugs. A study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Young adults who took prescription stimulants as kids were no more likely to use illicit drugs than their peers.

Unfortunately, the same drugs with high potential for abuse are also the ones that work best for certain individuals with neurobehavioral conditions. According to GlobalData, penetrating the stimulant ...

The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) have joined forces and issued an evidence-based clinical practice guideline on the management ...

Clyde Davis battled a methamphetamine and heroin addiction for over nine years. He tried various treatment programs, but none worked for him before he reached his insurance maximum and was forced to ...

Amid an ongoing shortage of prescription stimulants in the US, federal agencies are calling on drugmakers to boost manufacturing and on health care providers to closely monitor prescribing practices.

New prescriptions for stimulants among adults, largely to treat ADHD, more than doubled since the start of the COVID-19 ...