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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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