An increasing number of people addicted to oxycodone and other opioids are now turning to widely available over-the-counter anti-diarrhea medications to ease their withdrawal symptoms or to get high.

Sure, we have many diarrhea jokes. But the reality is that diarrhea kills 2,195 children every day—more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. Diarrheal diseases lead to 1 in 9 child deaths ...

FDA’s work to limit the number of doses in a package of the anti-diarrhea medicine Imodium (loperamide) could have unintended consequences for the millions of Americans who use the drug on a regular ...