300mg once on day 1, twice daily on day 2, and 3 times daily on day 3; may titrate up to usual max 1.8g/day in 3 divided doses (doses up to 3.6g/day have been used without added benefit). Renal ...

Purepac Pharmaceutical, a subsidiary of Fort Lee generic pharmaceutical company Alpharma (NYSE: ALO), has received final approval from the Food and Drug Administration to market gabapentin tablets–a ...

Receiving six or more prescriptions of the drug gabapentin for low back pain is associated with significantly increased risks of developing dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI)--29% and 85%, ...

New research questioned old assumptions ...

Many of the prescription drugs that are commonly abused or misused are brands most people have heard of. Painkillers, also known as opioids, are the most frequently abused ones, per data from the New ...

John Avery was just back from a guys’ golfing weekend and doing dead lifts at the gym in 2023 when he felt a pop in his lower back. A disc had slipped and was pressing on a nerve. After months of rest ...

Sunshine Biopharma’s Canadian subsidiary, Nora Pharma has launched Gabapentin, a new generic prescription drug in the therapeutic class of anticonvulsants. Gabapentin is a generic version of Neurontin ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 82 and take gabapentin for arthritis, but my niece takes it for anxiety. What is gabapentin all about? -- J.M. ANSWER: Gabapentin was originally approved as a drug to control ...

MUMBAI, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Indian drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd is recalling some gabapentin tablets in the United States, a spokesman said, confirming a report in the Economic Times on Friday.

Gabapentin is sometimes used in an off-label capacity, meaning healthcare providers prescribe it for things the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) hasn’t approved it for. When used off-label, ...

WASHINGTON — There are three FDA-approved drugs for treating alcohol use disorder. But a different medication, one frequently used off-label for the condition, could provide greater benefit to ...

Two of the problematic drugs, pregabalin and gabapentin, have a fundamentally undocumented and often very modest ...