A body of research that helped normalize medical detox during pregnancy is now under sustained criticism from auditors and addiction specialists, and the questions being raised go to the heart of how pregnant patients with …
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 …