Instead of confronting a growing crisis where kids are overdosing or dying in homes riddled with fentanyl and meth, ...

Substance use among adolescents, which declined precipitously amid the social distancing and isolation brought about by the ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers made 18 arrests and confiscated six guns during Tuesday’s New Year’s Eve celebrations ...

"This trend in the reduction of substance use among teenagers is unprecedented ," Nora Volkow, director of NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), said. "We must continue to investigate factors ...

Currently, liraglutide and semaglutide are the only two GLP-1 drugs FDA-approved to treat obesity in kids ages 12 and up. Total prescriptions for those two drugs written by pediatric and ...

Kids who were in 8th grade at pandemic's start have ushered in an era of abstaining.

"Both in kids and adults, we just don't know. These meds are new enough that we need more time," Straughn said. Wegovy, which is the weight-loss equivalent to the drug Ozempic, is approved by the ...

A new study published recently in the journal Gut shows children with Crohn's who were prescribed anti-TNF (tumor necrosis ...

Weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy are increasingly popular among adults, who have flocked to the new medications as alternatives to the traditional — and often ineffective — advice ...

“Both in kids and adults, we just don’t know. These meds are new enough that we need more time,” Straughn said. Wegovy, which is the weight-loss equivalent to the drug Ozempic, is approved ...