Drug Info

Search for a drug by name or NDC number and get complete drug information. It's like the printout attached to your refill—only electronic.

  DailyMed

This Web site provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts.

  Pill Identifier

Use the pill finder to identify medications by visual appearance or name. All Rx and OTC drugs in the US are required by the FDA to have an imprint. If your pill has no imprint it could be a vitamin, diet/herbal/energy pill, illicit or foreign drug.

 How Drugs Won the War on Drugs

Here's to 50 years of failure.

 These Drugs Are So Futuristic That Doctors Need New Training

Next-generation treatments on the way for once-incurable diseases can be complicated to test and administer; ‘if we can’t get it to these patients, the science is lost’

 Why we love drugs

Michael Pollan on America’s broken — but improving — relationship with drugs.

A History of Drug Use in the US

Many of the illegal drugs we know of in the US today were used medicinally or in traditional spiritual practices historically around the globe. These drugs began to surface in the United States (without respect to the Indigenous People of the continent) in the 1800s.

A Social History Of America's Most Popular Drugs

Hundreds of early Hollywood silent films depicted scenes of drug use and trafficking...

Demand for Obesity Drugs Has Insurers Paying Close Attention

Strong sales of obesity-diabetes drugs known as GLP-1s could affect insurance companies’ financial results.

Discovering new drugs is a long and expensive process – chemical compounds that dupe screening tools make it even harder

Modern drug discovery is an expensive and complicated process. Hundreds of scientists and at least a decade are often required to produce a single medicine. One of the most critical steps in this process is the first one – identifying new chemical compounds that could be developed into new medicines.

Drugs - Who's Minding The Store?

The most common adverse drug reactions are the effects from the drug itself - a virtual double-edged sword!

Drugs and alcohol do not make you more creative, research finds

Travel, meditation, training and exposure to culture have a greater effect on artistic output.

Drugs – 4 essential reads on how they’re made, how they work and how context can make poison a medicine

Pandemics and disease outbreaks put a spotlight on the hurdles researchers face to get a drug on the shelves. From finding prospective drug candidates to balancing time and financial pressures with ensuring safety and efficacy, there are many aspects of drug development that determine whether a treatment ever makes it out of the lab.

Fake drugs: The global industry putting your life at risk

This is a story of how the manufacture and distribution of medicines today is such a complex, globalised affair that it is often hard to track where fake or substandard medicines come from and where they go. This is a story of how these medicines could make you ill or even kill you, even if you don't take them.

Human Drugs Are Polluting the Water—And Animals Are Swimming in It

Waterways can contain traces of many drugs—among them antifungals, antimicrobials, and antibacterials, as well as ones for pain, fertility, mood, sleeplessness, and neurodegenerative diseases. If current trends persist, scientists estimate, the volume of pharmaceuticals diffusing into fresh water could increase by two-thirds by 2050.

Imagine if the media covered alcohol like other drugs

Meet alcohol, the drug making people run around nude and collapse in the streets.

New drugs. Cheaper drugs. Why not both?

Here's the argument: Americans pay loads for drugs. That motivates and funds pharmaceutical companies' research and development for better drugs. The fear is that if you lower the cost of drugs you might hurt overall innovation.

Should You Drug Your Way to a Better Life?

As medical science advances, the development of new drugs, along with increased understanding of oldies but goodies, "just say 'no'" will become ever more dubious advice. But what answers can we find in the world of drugs?

The 3 deadliest drugs in America are legal

Tobacco, alcohol, and opioids kill hundreds of thousands annually. Marijuana, meanwhile, has caused zero overdose deaths.

The bizarre Americanness of prescription drug commercials

Before you’d heard of Ozempic, constant TV ads made sure you knew the Ozempic song.

The History of Drugs

Many definitions exist for the term “drug.” For the purposes of this paper, a drug is defined as “an article intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or animals.”

This Drug Is Safe and Effective. Wait. Compared With What?

Comparative effectiveness research may be the best way to answer questions that patients and physicians face every day.

This is your brain on drugs

Brain scans and other studies reveal how drugs hijack your brain.

What is the most dangerous drug?

Some drugs classified as highly dangerous are less harmful than alcohol or tobacco.

Why Not Get Your Drugs at the Barbershop?

Barbers used to perform surgery on their clients—they could certainly dole out medication today.