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, ...

The FDA has released a warning about the use of general anesthetic and sedation drugs in children and pregnant women. 1. The FDA safety announcement warns that recent studies suggest repeated or ...

Droperidol, a sedation drug, is safe an effective to use to calm violent and aggressive patients in the ER even though it garnered a black box warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, ...

A growing number of children and teenagers admitted voluntarily to North Texas for-profit psychiatric hospitals told WFAA that they've been injected with powerful sedative drugs without their parents’ ...

Sedation tended to peak within the first few days of treatment and half of the events resolved within a week after onset while 75% resolved within a month. Sedation from antipsychotic treatment in ...

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