Prescriptions for the nerve-pain drug have doubled in 15 years as doctors moved away from opioids and benzodiazepines.• ...

Gabapentin has soared in popularity as an alternative to opioids, but research is finding that it isn’t as safe or effective ...

Gabapentin is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of epilepsy and postherpetic neuralgia. [1] It is often prescribed off-label for other pain syndromes, anxiety and ...

Once promoted as a safer alternative to opioids, the widely prescribed drug is now linked to withdrawal, overdoses and serious side effects that many patients say they were never warned about.

Prescriptions for gabapentin in the U.S. increased from 5.8 million to 15.5 million since 2010, raising safety concerns related to misuse.

March 9 (UPI) --The prescription drug Gabapentin may help those suffering from withdrawal symptoms during treatment for alcohol addiction, a new study has found. The study, published Monday in JAMA ...

The anticonvulsant gabapentin may help curb alcohol use and reduce withdrawal symptoms in patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD), new research suggests. Results from a randomized controlled trial ...

In the hunt for new ways to help people fight alcoholism, doctors are studying gabapentin, a generic drug that's commonly used to treat epilepsy and fibromyalgia. In a 12-week clinical trial conducted ...

A new study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine in March 2020 reports the striking efficacy of the drug gabapentin in helping people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) with their alcohol ...