If you are dependent on a concentrated kratom extract sold at a gas station or vape shop, stopping on your own can produce the same withdrawal syndrome as stopping an opioid. A newly published case …
Getting methadone treatment has always meant getting to the clinic, and for people in rural Connecticut that has meant a daily drive many could not sustain. Three state-funded mobile units are now trying to close …
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 …