When agitated dementia patients wander or shout through the night, families and caregivers understandably feel the need to ...

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 ...

Benzodiazepines, opioid analgesics, and other sedatives have indispensable medical uses; however, they can also stimulate the reward center in the brain. In susceptible individuals, this can lead to ...

The BC Centre for Disease Control is warning that novel substances have been introduced to the unregulated drug supply, leading to an increase in drug poisonings.

A powerful animal sedative in the illicit drug supply is complicating the U.S. response to the opioid crisis, scrambling longstanding methods for reversing overdoses and treating addiction. Xylazine ...

Inhaled isoflurane sedation was on par with IV midazolam for children age 3 to 17 years in the ICU on mechanical ventilation in a randomized trial. Isoflurane also reduced time to extubation and ...

The prevalence of diagnosed disorders from recurrent use of sedative, hypnotic and antianxiety medications in adolescents and young adults has increased sharply since 2001, according to Rutgers Health ...

Hallucinated sexual assaults and erotic fantasies induced by sedatives, including midazolam, may occur during procedures like dental restorations, putting clinicians at risk of legal troubles, ...