For decades, starting methadone meant showing up at a clinic every morning, indefinitely. That requirement kept medication-assisted treatment out of reach for anyone with a job, young children, or a long drive. Two years after …
Getting through alcohol withdrawal in a hospital is the hard part most people picture. A study of nearly 6,000 such hospitalizations suggests the more consequential gap comes at the other end, when patients are discharged …
The hardest part of medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder is often not starting it. It is staying on it. Dropout is where outcomes are lost, and it is the problem a category of FDA-authorized …
Medication-assisted treatment works only if a person can reach it, and in rural Iowa that has been the harder half of the problem. A mobile unit run by University of Iowa Health Care is addressing …
Naloxone reverses an opioid overdose by displacing opioids from receptors in the brain. That is life-saving, and it is also abrupt. In a person who is physically dependent on opioids, a full naloxone dose can …
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