Medical detox from fentanyl now often means detoxing from two substances at once, and the setting where that happens least safely is a county jail. Reporting published June 26 by STAT documents what happens when …
The hardest part of starting medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder is often not the medication. It is the wait. A person who decides on a Tuesday that they are ready to stop using fentanyl …
A sedative that most people have never heard of has changed what medical detox from fentanyl actually involves. Medetomidine, a veterinary drug now saturating the illicit opioid supply in some cities, produces a withdrawal syndrome …
One of the oldest questions in medical detox is which medication best protects someone going through alcohol withdrawal. A new comparative study of 9,424 hospitalized patients adds a substantial data point, linking phenobarbital monotherapy to …
A new methadone clinic in Bristol, Virginia is now open, and for people across the Tri-Cities it removes a barrier that has kept some out of treatment entirely. Cedar Recovery’s Bristol location is the first …