Americans as a population have an unusually large appetite for psychoactive drugs, whether legal or illegal. And American history has been marked by periodic moral panics over drug use and ...

Country star Billy Don Burns has revealed he was hospitalized after going on a self-destructive alcohol and drug binge, before stabbing himself with a pocket knife. Burns told in a disturbing Facebook ...

Ireland's biggest drug maker is aiming to introduce a medicine that quells the urge to overeat. Just don't call it a diet drug. After Alkermes Inc. last week stopped developing a similar medicine, ...

The New York Times describes the new movement uniting the obese and people with eating disorders. The issue that unites them is binge eating—an addictive behavior. Not all obese people are binge ...

(Reuters) -Researchers monitoring the brain activity of a patient with a severe binge-eating problem reported that Eli Lilly's GLP-1 weight-loss drug appeared to temporarily suppress food-craving ...

A teenage girl left with PTSD after she ended up “high all weekend” when given drugs by sixth-form boys at a private boarding school is suing for £145,000 in compensation. Irune Pedrayes was only 14 ...

LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Pharmaceutical group Shire PLC said Vyvanse, its amphetamine-based drug prescribed to U.S. students to control ADHD, had also been successful in treating binge eating ...