After Hours: Gapapentin: A Popular and Potentially Troublesome Medicine (From the Archives)
Gabapentin has quietly become one of the most widely-prescribed drugs in America, and some say that could spell big trouble.
Gabapentin has quietly become one of the most widely-prescribed drugs in America, and some say that could spell big trouble.
Today we begin with a medicine that has quietly become one of the most widely-prescribed drugs in America, gabapentin. It’s most often given for illnesses it wasn’t FDA-approved to treat. That practice is legal, but some watchdogs say gabapentin’s allegedly
Gabapentin has quietly become one of the most widely-prescribed drugs in America, and some say that could spell big trouble. Michael Abrams of Public Citizen explains why, as neurologist Dr. Brian Callaghan offers a counterpoint.