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Medical Detox Now Offered at Marshall, Missouri Rehab Center

For people in central Missouri who need medical detox, the nearest supervised option has often meant a long drive. A residential addiction treatment center in Marshall, Missouri is now offering medically supported withdrawal care alongside …

Medical Detox Cases Rise in Florida as DEA Targets 7-OH

People arriving for medical detox from a kratom-derived compound called 7-OH often did not know they were taking an opioid. That is the clinical problem Florida detox programs describe, and it is about to collide …

Hospitalist Says MAT at Discharge Strengthens Opioid Recovery

Medication-assisted treatment often begins during a hospital stay, and whether it continues afterward often comes down to what happens in the hours before discharge. Heidi Bray, DNP, a nurse practitioner and hospitalist at Providence St. …

Methadone Pharmacy Bill Divides Addiction Treatment Providers

For half a century, methadone for opioid use disorder has been available in the United States only through federally certified opioid treatment programs and approved providers. A reintroduced bipartisan bill would change that, and the …

Meth Detox Still Has No Approved Medication, Review Finds

Anyone arranging medical detox for methamphetamine runs into a gap that doesn’t exist for alcohol or opioids. The FDA has approved no medication to treat methamphetamine use disorder or to manage withdrawal from it. A …

Wildfire Smoke Can Disrupt Medication-Assisted Treatment Access

When Canadian wildfire smoke pushed air quality into hazardous territory across the Midwest and Northeast this month, the public health guidance was simple. Stay inside. For anyone in medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, that …

Mobile Addiction Clinics Reached 4,645 People in Massachusetts

Medication-assisted treatment reached 4,645 people across Massachusetts over two and a half years, delivered from vans parked on ordinary streets rather than from clinics. A new four-year analysis of the state’s mobile addiction programs puts …

Tennessee Woman Dies of Severe Withdrawal 6 Days After Arrest

A seizure roughly 48 hours after someone’s last dose is one of the clearest signals in withdrawal medicine, and it is exactly the event medical detox monitoring exists to anticipate. Tiffany Sneed, 45, of Soddy …

GLP-1 Drugs Linked to Lower Repeat Overdose Risk

The period right after medical detox is one of the most dangerous windows in addiction recovery, and a new large-scale study suggests a class of medications originally developed for diabetes and weight loss may help …

Study Finds Mirtazapine Eases Meth Withdrawal Cravings

Methamphetamine use disorder has no FDA-approved medication for treatment, which makes every new clinical trial in this space worth watching. A small randomized trial published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine found that mirtazapine, an …

Alaska Makes Buprenorphine Access by Telehealth Permanent

Alaska has adopted permanent rules for prescribing buprenorphine through telemedicine, giving physicians and people going through medical detox for opioid use disorder a stable, long-term framework instead of temporary emergency measures. The new rules take …

North Hollywood Center Expands Physician-Led Medical Detox

Titan Recovery Center, a Joint Commission-accredited facility in North Hollywood, California, is expanding access to physician-led medical detox and residential addiction treatment for adults across Southern California. The expansion focuses specifically on the two levels …