The nation’s leading addiction medicine society has published new clinical guidance on an emerging threat in the drug supply. The American Society of Addiction Medicine released a Clinical Consideration on medetomidine intoxication and withdrawal, giving …
Starting medication-assisted treatment may not have to wait for days of detox and stabilization. A new case series found that a single rapid injection of extended-release buprenorphine, given within 24 hours of intake to people …
Hancock County’s first methadone clinic is now treating patients in Ellsworth, Maine, closing a local access gap that Detox.com first covered when Everest Recovery proposed the site. The company began seeing patients on October 7 …
For pregnant women with opioid use disorder, the safest path runs through medication-assisted treatment under medical supervision, not through withdrawal faced alone. Missouri is rebuilding its maternal care around that principle after the state’s Pregnancy-Associated …
People in Erie County, Ohio, who need withdrawal treatment but cannot put their jobs or child care on hold now have a way to start recovery anyway. The Erie County Health Department has launched an …