Two abortion-inducing drugs could soon be reclassified as controlled and dangerous substances in Louisiana under a first-of-its-kind bill that received final legislative passage Thursday and is ...

Drug schedules typically take the form of Roman numerals rather than standard numbers, so you’ll often see them referred to as I, II, III, IV, or V rather than 1, 2 ...

HARRISBURG — The state Department of Health is temporarily scheduling nitazenes as a Class I controlled substance, effective Saturday, July 19. Nitazenes are a class of synthetic opioids that can be ...

Two abortion-inducing drugs could soon be reclassified as controlled and dangerous substances in Louisiana under a first-of-its-kind bill that received final legislative passage Thursday and is ...

Briviact (brivaracetam) is a brand-name medication doctors prescribe for partial onset seizures in adults and certain children. Briviact belongs to the group of drugs called anticonvulsants. It is ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When the U.S. Department of Justice moved to reclassify medical marijuana to a Schedule III drug on April 23, 2026, it set the stage for a vast amount of medical research that has ...

A new lawsuit challenges Louisiana’s classification of abortion medications as controlled dangerous substances. The suit alleges that the law creates barriers for health care workers who need to ...

For more than 50 years, marijuana has been classified as a Schedule I drug, alongside drugs considered to have no accepted medical use, thanks to then-President Richard Nixon’s so-called War on Drugs.