A mobile medication-assisted treatment (MAT) clinic is bringing opioid and substance use disorder care directly to rural Iowa communities, and the results are already reaching more than 100 patients who might otherwise go without help. …
Wisconsin patients seeking medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder face some of the most restrictive medical detox rules in the country, and providers say those rules are costing lives. While other states have updated their …
A new NIH-funded clinical trial is changing how doctors approach medical detox for one of the most vulnerable patients in the opioid crisis: newborns. The research, published in JAMA, finds that matching opioid withdrawal treatment …
A new five-year plan out of Salt Lake County is putting $29.7 million behind a principle that addiction medicine has long supported. Medical detox and medication-assisted treatment need to follow people through the entire continuum …
New research confirms that medication-assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder lowers hospitalization rates and reduces medical cost. These findings underscore why medical detox and comprehensive follow-up care can be life-changing for patients struggling with alcohol …