From 2021 to 2023, stimulant marketing payments doubled and tripled for physicians and advanced practice clinicians, respectively. The increases were driven in large part by growth in marketing to ...

Prescriptions for stimulants often used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder surged during the pandemic, especially among adults, a new study found. The ...

There were about 5.9 million new prescriptions for stimulants in the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, about 700,000 more than in the two years before the pandemic started – a 14% spike – ...

Captagon is an illegal amphetamine-type stimulant that has been linked to ISIS. Syrian police show seized drugs and captagon pills at the Drug Enforcement Administration in the capital Damascus, on ...

Reducing stimulant use was associated with significant improvement in measures of health and recovery among people with stimulant use disorder, even if they did not achieve total abstinence. This ...

The stimulant shortage is continuing for the foreseeable future. Many people who are on ADHD stimulant medications are still having a hard time finding them. Whether you can find a medication is ...

In Pawtucket, R.I., near a storefront advertising "free" cell phones, J.R. sat in an empty back stairwell and showed a reporter how he tries to avoid overdosing when he smokes crack cocaine. (NPR is ...

In some middle and high schools in the United States, about 1 in 4 students report misuing prescription stimulants for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, during the year prior, ...

The U.S. is in the throes of what researchers have deemed a “fourth wave” of the opioid crisis, a phase characterized by overdose deaths caused by the combination of stimulants and the powerful ...

There's an urgent need for treatment to help people addicted to cocaine and meth. One approach has decades of research showing it works but it's hard to find. For decades, even as deaths from ...

New study links popular stimulant to reduced risk of head and neck cancers. What does this mean for food and beverage brands? Caffeine is the most highly consumed stimulant in the world, with around ...