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National City, California Opens $29M Medical Detox Center

San Diego County’s shortage of supervised withdrawal capacity is about to improve. Officials unveiled a new $29 million Substance Use Residential and Treatment Services center in National City on September 14. The facility represents the …

Missoula, Montana Hospital Launches Medical Detox Program

A new local option is available for adults in Western Montana who need medical detox. Community Medical Center in Missoula launched a supervised withdrawal management program on September 9 through StepOne Service. The program addresses …

Medication Assisted Treatment Access Expands as States Ease Rules

Getting medication assisted treatment for opioid dependence is becoming possible in more communities than ever before. Across the country states have started dropping rules that once limited where methadone could be dispensed, and how patients …

Medetomidine in Fentanyl Supply Sparks Medical Detox Warning

Medical detox programs face a new complication in the opioid supply. Health officials in Philadelphia have confirmed medetomidine in the local fentanyl supply. The veterinary sedative has never been approved for human use. It can …

Medical Detox Still Essential as Fentanyl Vaccine Advances

University of Washington researchers will ask the Food and Drug Administration for approval to begin human trials of a fentanyl vaccine. The vaccine itself is years away from pharmacies. Why Medical Detox Matters With fentanyl …

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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 …

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