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Kratom Extract Withdrawal Shows Why Medical Detox Matters

If you are dependent on a concentrated kratom extract sold at a gas station or vape shop, stopping on your own can produce the same withdrawal syndrome as stopping an opioid. A newly published case …

State-Funded Methadone Treatment Vans Launch in Connecticut

Getting methadone treatment has always meant getting to the clinic, and for people in rural Connecticut that has meant a daily drive many could not sustain. Three state-funded mobile units are now trying to close …

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Under 39,000 Young Patients Filled Buprenorphine Prescriptions in 2023

Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder is approved for patients as young as 16. It’s available in pharmacies nationwide and can be prescribed by any doctor or nurse practitioner. Resources like buprenorphine prescriptions for …

Detox Made Up 17 Percent of Treatment Admissions in 2024

Alcohol was the leading reason people entered substance use treatment in 2024, and roughly one medical detox treatment admission in six was for withdrawal management rather than ongoing treatment. Those figures come from SAMHSA’s Treatment …

Buprenorphine Prescriptions Fell 11% in Rhode Island Since 2022

Medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder became easier to prescribe in 2023 when Congress eliminated the federal waiver requirement for buprenorphine. New surveillance data from Rhode Island shows dispensing went the other direction anyway. Buprenorphine …

Methadone Take Home Access Expands Under 2024 Federal Rules

For decades, starting methadone meant showing up at a clinic every morning, indefinitely. That requirement kept medication-assisted treatment out of reach for anyone with a job, young children, or a long drive. Two years after …

Recovery Meds Started in 1 of 5 Alcohol Withdrawal Hospitalizations

Getting through alcohol withdrawal in a hospital is the hard part most people picture. A study of nearly 6,000 such hospitalizations suggests the more consequential gap comes at the other end, when patients are discharged …

App Helped Patients Stay in Medication-Assisted Treatment

The hardest part of medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder is often not starting it. It is staying on it. Dropout is where outcomes are lost, and it is the problem a category of FDA-authorized …

Rural Iowa Mobile Unit Delivers Medication-Assisted Treatment

Medication-assisted treatment works only if a person can reach it, and in rural Iowa that has been the harder half of the problem. A mobile unit run by University of Iowa Health Care is addressing …

Wearable Naloxone Device Rated More Acceptable Than Implant

Naloxone reverses an opioid overdose by displacing opioids from receptors in the brain. That is life-saving, and it is also abrupt. In a person who is physically dependent on opioids, a full naloxone dose can …

Medical Detox Offers a Planned Exit From 7-OH Dependence

Anyone taking concentrated 7-OH products daily is facing a supply deadline set by federal rule rather than by a clinician, and medical detox is the difference between a planned transition and an abrupt one. The …

Senate Bill Would Let Addiction Specialists Prescribe Methadone

For anyone who depends on daily clinic visits to receive methadone treatment, a bill now back before the U.S. Senate would change where that medication comes from. The Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act, reintroduced in …