When Canadian wildfire smoke pushed air quality into hazardous territory across the Midwest and Northeast this month, the public health guidance was simple. Stay inside. For anyone in medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, that …
Medication-assisted treatment reached 4,645 people across Massachusetts over two and a half years, delivered from vans parked on ordinary streets rather than from clinics. A new four-year analysis of the state’s mobile addiction programs puts …
A seizure roughly 48 hours after someone’s last dose is one of the clearest signals in withdrawal medicine, and it is exactly the event medical detox monitoring exists to anticipate. Tiffany Sneed, 45, of Soddy …
The period right after medical detox is one of the most dangerous windows in addiction recovery, and a new large-scale study suggests a class of medications originally developed for diabetes and weight loss may help …
Methamphetamine use disorder has no FDA-approved medication for treatment, which makes every new clinical trial in this space worth watching. A small randomized trial published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine found that mirtazapine, an …