Perioperative gabapentin use was associated with kidney function decline compared with pregabalin. Perioperative use of gabapentin may increase the risk for kidney function decline and chronic kidney ...

Prescribed by doctors for anxiety disorders, the drug use is raising questions among doctors due to its increasing abuse.

Gabapentinoid users increased from 4.0% in 2015 to 4.7% in 2021, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data showed. Moreover, gabapentinoids -- which includes gabapentin and pregabalin -- continued ...

Pregabalin was described "very easy to get, really dangerous, and addictive" ...

The efficacy of pregabalin for the management of neuropathic pain associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy has been established in several controlled clinical trials. [17,18,19] These trials ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to warn practitioners that respiratory depression may occur in patients taking the drugs gabapentin or pregabalin, especially patients who are ...

Two of the problematic drugs, pregabalin and gabapentin, have a fundamentally undocumented and often very modest ...