15.5M Americans now take gabapentin, often off-label. 5th most prescribed drug in the U.S. New data link long-term use to dementia and fatal falls.
It started small. A pill for seizures that quietly moved into everything else. Back pain. Hot flashes. Restless nights. One drug that keeps finding new problems to solve, even the ones it was never built for. “What do hot flashes, back pain, and insomnia have in common? Increasingly, they all lead to the same prescription: …