You wake up with burning, unexplained pain. Or maybe you’re managing the tingling and numbness of diabetic neuropathy. Or perhaps your nights are restless because your legs simply won’t stay still.

Many of the prescription drugs that are commonly abused or misused are brands most people have heard of. Painkillers, also known as opioids, are the most frequently abused ones, per data from the New ...

Pain is personal and highly subjective. An event that causes excruciating intolerable agony for one person might be perceived ...

In January 2025, we reported that some adverse events associated with gabapentin (Neurontin) may have been overestimated. Since then, new risks related to gabapentin emerged and prescribing continued ...

A cross-sectional study examined dispensing of anticonvulsant gabapentin from retail pharmacies in the United States from 2010 to 2024. The findings revealed a slow but increasing rate of gabapentin ...