Wisconsin patients seeking medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder face some of the most restrictive medical detox rules in the country, and providers say those rules are costing lives. While other states have updated their …
A new NIH-funded clinical trial is changing how doctors approach medical detox for one of the most vulnerable patients in the opioid crisis: newborns. The research, published in JAMA, finds that matching opioid withdrawal treatment …
A new five-year plan out of Salt Lake County is putting $29.7 million behind a principle that addiction medicine has long supported. Medical detox and medication-assisted treatment need to follow people through the entire continuum …
New research confirms that medication-assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder lowers hospitalization rates and reduces medical cost. These findings underscore why medical detox and comprehensive follow-up care can be life-changing for patients struggling with alcohol …
After more than eleven years without local medical detox services, Taos County, New Mexico, is reopening a supervised withdrawal management facility, a development that local officials say could not come at a more critical time. …