A protester has filed a federal civil lawsuit against the city of San Francisco claiming that a paramedic, under the direction of a police sergeant, injected her against her will with a sedative while ...

Xylazine is a sedative that's only approved for use in animals, but now it is showing up in illegal street drugs up and down the East Coast. WBUR's Martha Bebinger reports that it may be contributing ...

New York health officials detected medetomidine in one in four opioid samples tested over 19 months as deaths linked to the ...

An analysis of 3.8 million children initially suggested that prenatal exposure to benzodiazepines or Z-hypnotics was tied to ...

A large South Korean study published by The BMJ today finds no increased risk of psychiatric or neurodevelopmental disorders, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than half of older ICU survivors who filled a new sedative prescription filled it again within 6 months of ...

The CDC and White House issued a health advisory about medetomidine, a deadly veterinary sedative known as rhino tranq, found in illegal fentanyl.

Officials note there has been a surge in people abusing a drug that has been known to make overdoses worse. The Indiana ...

The prevalence of diagnosed disorders from recurrent use of sedative, hypnotic and anti-anxiety medications in adolescents and young adults has increased sharply since 2001, according to researchers.

Metoclopramide is a central dopamine D2-receptor antagonist used as an antiemetic and gastroprokinetic agent in dogs and cats 1,2,3,4. It has been used experimentally in pigeons as an antiemetic agent ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An owner who had to sedate her dog for a vet appointment has left the internet in hysterics by revealing how she found ...