According to Sharon Levy, MD, Harvard Medical School's pediatric addiction expert, nonmedical medication misuse may be much more common than previously reported. One of the older fads is in the news ...

Abuse of a drug found in popular over-the-counter cough and cold medicines has soared in recent years, particularly among adolescents, according to an analysis of phone calls received by the statewide ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) is pleased to lend its strong support for the DXM Abuse Prevention Act, introduced into the U.S. House of ...

The Coalition and Memorial Health System of East Texas, as part of National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month, held a press conference Wednesday to spotlight the growing trend of medicine abuse among ...

Dextromethorphan (sometimes referred to as DXM) is a semisynthetic derivative of morphine that's used to treat cough. The drug is an ingredient in more than 125 over-the-counter cough and cold ...

In recent years, a growing and potentially life-threatening trend known as Robo tripping, the abuse of over-the-counter cough and cold medications, has emerged among America’s youth. Nearly 10 percent ...

The number of reported cases of dextromethorphan abuse in California increased 10-fold between 1999 and 2004, an increase that parallels national trends, according to a report in the December issue of ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The results of the 2020 National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and University of Michigan’s Monitoring the Future survey shows 3.7 percent of teens reported using ...