Addicts use loperamide, sold as Imodium, to get high or ease opioid withdrawal, The opioid crisis has taken what the FDA calls "many new and troubling turns," and and this is one of them. Opioid ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal health officials are investigating sometimes-deadly overdoses with common anti-diarrhea drugs, a bizarre manifestation of the nation’s drug abuse problem. The primary ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators on Tuesday asked makers of popular anti-diarrhea drugs to sell their medications in smaller amounts to make them harder to abuse. The request comes amid a spike in ...

People suffering from opioid addiction in New Jersey and the U.S. have been increasingly abusing Imodium, an over-the-counter anti-diarrhea medicine, to combat their withdrawal symptoms, experts say.

This week, the FDA issued a warning about the anti-diarrhea medication, Loperamide known as Imodium. Apparently, people are taking massive doses of it, trying to get high. "There's no smart drug to ...

A friend of mine wrote that on Facebook the other day above a weird photo. It showed three boxes of Imodium A-D – that trusted anti-diarrhea medication – lying crumpled in a parking lot. What ...

Experts strategized how to bolster troop combat readiness in Djibouti through better diarrhea treatment during a recent visit by medical researchers to Camp Lemonnier.

WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials are investigating sometimes-deadly overdoses with common anti-diarrhea drugs, a bizarre manifestation of the nation's drug abuse problem. The primary ingredient ...