Study details the association between sedative-hypnotic prescriptions, high volume, and recent use with increased suicide risk and self-poisoning in older adults.

Benzodiazepines, opioid analgesics, and other sedatives have indispensable medical uses; however, they can also stimulate the reward center in the brain. In susceptible individuals, this can lead to ...

An Ohio lawmaker wants the state to crack down on kratom, a mostly unregulated herbal extract that can act as both a ...

Abcejo's general message to upper management is that remimazolam has value because it is hemodynamically more stable than ...

During a hearing on Friday, October 25, for former Booker High School security aide Daniel Wilson, the court ordered that he ...

Imagine you get nine hours of sleep every night, squeeze in long naps whenever you can, and yet every waking hour is a blur of exhaustion, poor focus and longing for the next time your head will hit ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than half of older ICU survivors who filled a new sedative prescription filled it again within 6 months of ...

Eight boys and one adult were taken to the hospital Jon Ruben/Facebook A man is accused of giving children candy laced with a sedative at a summer camp John Ruben, 76, has been charged with three ...

The biotech company BTNX says it is shipping out new test strips this week that detect the presence of xylazine, an animal sedative that officials say is increasingly being mixed with fentanyl. As ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KRCG) — Amid an uptick in xylazine consumption, commonly known as "tranq," a bipartisan group of Congressional lawmakers recently moved to further restrict the drug widely used as ...