Understanding medication side effects on memory
Several widely prescribed drug classes carry documented cognitive side effects, and many patients don’t know to connect the dots until the damage feels familiar. Memory lapses are easy to attribute to stress, aging, or poor sleep. They are harder to trace back to a prescription bottle sitting on the nightstand. […]
Opioid crisis response takes a new form as non-addictive pain drugs gain real ground
Opioid dependence has shaped chronic pain treatment for decades, with pain treated primarily as a symptom of physical damage, something to be managed with drugs that dulled the signal without addressing what was generating it. That understanding has shifted considerably. Researchers now recognize chronic pain as a complex condition involving disrupted pain processing in the […]