Anyone facing a prescribed opioid taper wants to know two things. Will the dose reduction hold, and how rough will it feel. A randomized controlled trial published July 7 in the Annals of Internal Medicine …
For people in central Missouri who need medical detox, the nearest supervised option has often meant a long drive. A residential addiction treatment center in Marshall, Missouri is now offering medically supported withdrawal care alongside …
People arriving for medical detox from a kratom-derived compound called 7-OH often did not know they were taking an opioid. That is the clinical problem Florida detox programs describe, and it is about to collide …
Medication-assisted treatment often begins during a hospital stay, and whether it continues afterward often comes down to what happens in the hours before discharge. Heidi Bray, DNP, a nurse practitioner and hospitalist at Providence St. …
For half a century, methadone for opioid use disorder has been available in the United States only through federally certified opioid treatment programs and approved providers. A reintroduced bipartisan bill would change that, and the …
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