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Denver Walk In Clinic Offers Medication-Assisted Treatment

The hardest part of starting medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder is often not the medication. It is the wait. A person who decides on a Tuesday that they are ready to stop using fentanyl …

Medical Detox Guidance Expands for Medetomidine Withdrawal

A sedative that most people have never heard of has changed what medical detox from fentanyl actually involves. Medetomidine, a veterinary drug now saturating the illicit opioid supply in some cities, produces a withdrawal syndrome …

Phenobarbital Linked to Fewer Seizures in Alcohol Withdrawal

One of the oldest questions in medical detox is which medication best protects someone going through alcohol withdrawal. A new comparative study of 9,424 hospitalized patients adds a substantial data point, linking phenobarbital monotherapy to …

Bristol, Virginia Gets First Methadone Clinic Within 50 Miles

A new methadone clinic in Bristol, Virginia is now open, and for people across the Tri-Cities it removes a barrier that has kept some out of treatment entirely. Cedar Recovery’s Bristol location is the first …

Coroner Ties Hiker Death to Probable Alcohol Withdrawal Seizures

A death first investigated as possible foul play has been ruled a probable case of fatal alcohol withdrawal, and it points at something medical detox clinicians see regularly but the public rarely hears about. Joanna …

1 in 3 New Buprenorphine Prescriptions Went Unfilled in 2024

For anyone planning what happens after opioid detox, a study published August 4 in JAMA Network Open identifies a failure point that sits outside the clinic entirely. Medication-assisted treatment only works if the medication reaches …

Opioid Taper Study Finds Added Therapy Does Not Boost Success

Anyone facing a prescribed opioid taper wants to know two things. Will the dose reduction hold, and how rough will it feel. A randomized controlled trial published July 7 in the Annals of Internal Medicine …

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 …