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Benzodiazepine Taper Guideline Caps Reductions at 25% Biweekly

Like alcohol, benzodiazepines are one of the few substances where medical detox exists because stopping can kill you. A joint clinical practice guideline from 10 medical societies has now put specific numbers on how slowly …

10% of Rural ERs Adopted Buprenorphine Treatment by 2025

New CDC surveillance numbers show that medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder has become more available in some ways over the past six years. It also showed it remained less available in other ways. The …

Naltrexone Cuts Alcohol Cravings but Requires Screening

A medication approved in 1994 is having a social media moment and the framing is doing it no favors. Naltrexone for alcohol cravings is being promoted online as the Ozempic of drinking. It’s being talked …

Medication-Assisted Treatment Reaches 25 Clinics in Nine States

For someone stabilizing on medication for opioid use disorder, switching medications has usually meant switching providers. A medication-assisted treatment change announced September 1 removes that step at 25 clinics. MedMark Treatment Centers said 25 of …

Flawed Naltrexone Study Still Shapes Medical Detox in Pregnancy

A body of research that helped normalize medical detox during pregnancy is now under sustained criticism from auditors and addiction specialists, and the questions being raised go to the heart of how pregnant patients with …

Rhode Island Mobile Methadone Treatment Faces Funding Strain

Since July 2022, a mobile methadone treatment unit has been dispensing medication six days a week in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. A new study published in Addiction Science and Clinical Practice interviewed the people who run …

23 Detox and Residential Beds Open in Boca Raton, Florida

For most people receiving methadone for opioid use disorder, the medication is only half the burden. The other half is the daily trip to a licensed opioid treatment program. It is often before work, sometimes …

Study Backs Methadone Access Through Community Pharmacies

South Florida added 23 detox and residential treatment beds this month. For anyone weighing where to start withdrawal management a new option is worth knowing about. It is also worth knowing exactly which questions separate …

Methadone Linked to Lower One-Year Death Risk Than Buprenorphine

Surviving an opioid overdose leaves a person at sharply elevated risk of dying, and the medication-assisted treatment started in that window carries real consequences. A new Canadian study of 5,882 overdose survivors found that those …

$30M Clinical Trial Will Test Alcohol Withdrawal Medications

The question of which medication best manages alcohol withdrawal has never been settled, and hospitals answer it differently depending on where you walk in. A large new trial is designed to fix that, and the …

Low Dose Buprenorphine Linked to Fewer Repeat Detox Admissions

Families researching mental health treatment for a teenager now have something they did not have last week, which is a public record of what a social media addiction case looks like when it reaches a …

Monthly Naltrexone Injection Outperformed Standard Care in Review

Anyone finishing medical detox from opioids faces a decision about how to proceed with their recovery care, and a Cochrane review of 22 trials gives it some shape. Compared to standard care, meaning counseling and …