According to alarming study, a common medication used to treat lower back pain may increase the risk of dementia by as much as 40%.

In the early 1990s, the NHS licensed gabapentin, also known as Neurontin, to treat epilepsy and nerve pain.

However, US researchers discovered that patients of any age who had been administered the drug at least six times had a 29% higher chance of getting memory robbing condition. Continues…