Cymbalta and Lexapro are alike and different in many ways. Both are commonly taken to treat depression and anxiety disorders. But Cymbalta is approved to treat other conditions as well. They also ...

SSRIs work by increasing levels of serotonin. Examples of commonly prescribed SSRis include Prozac (fluoxetine) and Lexapro (escitalopram). At times, healthcare providers prescribe medications for a ...

For every illegal drug, there is a combination of emojis that dealers and consumers use to evade detection on social media and messaging platforms. Snowflakes, snowfall, and snowmen symbolize cocaine.

The same insurgents who embraced opium to help finance their war have put an end to it, ordering a ban that has all but cleared Afghanistan of poppy and other illicit drugs. What the United States ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has placed its most serious warning – a so-called black-box warning – on a drug used to relieve menopausal hot flashes. The FDA says women who are taking ...

Teen drug use continued to fall in 2024, extending a dramatic decline spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic that experts expected would reverse now that the acute phase of the global crisis is well over.

In addition to obesity-related conditions, some patients are being prescribed the drugs to lose weight and become eligible for services, including organ transplants, fertility treatments or knee ...

I started taking the antidepressant medication Lexapro for anxiety back when I was in my early teens. Since starting, I could tell it helped, but I never wanted to be on it my whole life. In January ...

As Mark Moran was facing another 90-hour week as an investment-banking intern at Credit Suisse in New York, he knew he needed help to survive the rest of the summer. His colleagues gave him a tip ...

In some ways, Captagon is the great unifier of the drug world. The synthetic stimulant is used across the Middle East by everyone from truckies and taxi drivers battling through shift work ...

Nicole Lee works as a paid consultant to the alcohol and other drug sector. She has previously been awarded grants by state and federal governments, NHMRC and other public funding bodies for ...

Billionaire investor and businessman Mark Cuban recently met with leaders at Penn Medicine, including University of Pennsylvania Health System CEO Kevin Mahoney (left) and Penn Medicine vice president ...