stimulants

Patients, pharmacists and manufacturers are reporting a serious shortage of medications to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) due to a hold in 2010 by the DEA on the drugs' main ingredients

(MedPage Today) -- With an FDA declaration that caffeinated alcohol drinks are unsafe looming, the maker of a leading brand promised to remove caffeine and other stimulants from the product.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health regulators are urging parents to keep their children on attention deficit drugs like Ritalin and Adderall, despite new evidence from a government-backed study that the stimulants can increase the risk of sudden death....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Baseball authorized nearly 8 percent of its players to use drugs for ADHD last season, which allowed them to take otherwise banned stimulants....

In a recent editorial in Nature, a group of bioethicists argue for using stimulants to enhance cognitive performance

Taking a cue from the success of methadone maintenance treatment for heroin, researchers are testing whether substitute stimulants can help cocaine and methamphetamine addicts.

BALTIMORE (MedPage Today) -- Children and teens in the U.S. are more likely to be prescribed stimulants, antidepressants, and other psychotropic drugs than their counterparts in two western European nations, according to a cross-sectional study.