Dec. 16, 2002 — -- Parents concerned about whether their children are abusing drugs might also want to keep their medicine cabinets under lock and key. Across the country, children and teens are ...

According to Sharon Levy, MD, Harvard Medical School's pediatric addiction expert, nonmedical medication misuse may be much more common than previously reported. One of the older fads is in the news ...

Don’t be lulled into thinking that cough and cold medicines are harmless because they are sold in grocery stores and say “children’s” on the label. Giving children too much cough and cold medicine can ...

When you’re feeling awful because of a cold, you just want something to fix you—if not to cure you, at least to help you temporarily feel better. Unfortunately a lot of remedies are placebos, but some ...

Last year, people in the US bought approximately 242 million packages of oral over-the-counter cough, cold, and allergy remedies containing phenylephrine from retail stores, according to sales data ...