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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 …

Vermont Expands Medicaid Days for Care After Medical Detox

Completing medical detox is not the same as completing treatment, and the days immediately after withdrawal are among the most medically and emotionally unstable in recovery. A Vermont program profiled by WCAX this month illustrates …

Fewer Than 1 in 5 With Addiction Receive Any Medical Treatment

Fewer than one in five people who need help for addiction receive any medical treatment for it, according to federal data at the center of an NPR investigation published August 6. Medication-assisted treatment is the …

Portland Detox Program Extends Stays to Reduce Overdose Risk

The most dangerous moment in medical detox is often the moment it ends. Tolerance to opioids falls sharply during withdrawal, and a return to a previous dose after discharge carries a substantially higher risk of …

Medetomidine Withdrawal Exposes Medical Detox Gaps in US Jails

Medical detox from fentanyl now often means detoxing from two substances at once, and the setting where that happens least safely is a county jail. Reporting published June 26 by STAT documents what happens when …

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 …