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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …