Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo Credit: Supitnan Pimpisarn / Getty Images) Imodium is a medication that can be used to treat dogs with diarrhea. Imodium is ...

(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 ...

Opioid withdrawal can make people desperate for relief, and a common remedy, sold in most drug stores, turns out to have unexpected health risks. Loperamide, available as a generic or as the brand ...

Imodium usually starts easing diarrhea within an hour. The active ingredient, loperamide, reaches peak levels in about two and a half hours when taken as a liquid, and around five hours when taken as ...

The FDA warns taking high doses of the anti-diarrhea medication Imodium may lead to serious and potentially fatal heart problems. Officials say it is safe when used as directed. Doctors say some ...

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 31, 2018 -- Increasingly, people addicted to opioid painkillers are using dangerously high doses of the diarrhea drug Imodium, or loperamide, either to get high or to help ease ...

It isn't always about diarrhea. That is a general statement but also applies to the use of anti-diarrhea medications. KDKA CBS Pittsburgh reported that a 29 year old Pittsburgh-area man died in ...

Loperamide, a drug with opiate effects used to treat short term bouts of diarrhea, and the active ingredient in Imodium AD sold over the counter, is now in the cross hairs of the FDA in an effort to ...

Too many people are overdosing on a diarrhea drug that has opiate-like effects, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

The over-the-counter anti-diarrhea medication Imodium, or its key ingredient loperamide, is increasingly being abused by people attempting to self-treat their opioid addiction, with sometime fatal ...