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 …
Anyone arranging medical detox for methamphetamine runs into a gap that doesn’t exist for alcohol or opioids. The FDA has approved no medication to treat methamphetamine use disorder or to manage withdrawal from it. A …
When Canadian wildfire smoke pushed air quality into hazardous territory across the Midwest and Northeast this month, the public health guidance was simple. Stay inside. For anyone in medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, that …
Medication-assisted treatment reached 4,645 people across Massachusetts over two and a half years, delivered from vans parked on ordinary streets rather than from clinics. A new four-year analysis of the state’s mobile addiction programs puts …
A seizure roughly 48 hours after someone’s last dose is one of the clearest signals in withdrawal medicine, and it is exactly the event medical detox monitoring exists to anticipate. Tiffany Sneed, 45, of Soddy …