Recovery from opiate addiction is not an easy path. For those attempting to stop, withdrawal symptoms can feel like a ...

Searing back pain, restless legs, nausea, and sleepless nights—the tortuous symptoms of an opiate withdrawal—had made detoxing off the drug nearly too painful for the native Midwesterner to bear.

Opiate withdrawal is a different and more difficult type of withdrawal to treat than crack addiction, said Dr. Jonathan Fanaroff, co-director of the NICU at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies ...

We deal with babies going through withdrawal,” said Dr. Sean Loudin, the medical director of a neonatal therapeutic unit at Cabell Huntington Hospital and a separate facility called Lily’s Place.

Though the latest research shows that 7.5 per 1,000 babies born in rural areas nationwide suffer from withdrawal, Loudin is seeing nearly 13 times that rate, with about one out of every 10 ...

In addition, incidence of babies going through withdrawal increased from 1.2 to 7.5 per 1,000 hospital births among rural infants and from 1.4 to 4.8 per 1,000 hospital births among urban infants.

But ibogaine let him put the withdrawal in context: he could change his life if he stayed off drugs. He followed his study treatment with a 12-step program and has been opiate-free ever since he ...

As a pharmacist for HCMC and Hennepin emergency services, Holly Drone has seen a lot. But when Drone described the pain of opiate withdrawal on patients, she turned to her clients’ and co ...

Opiate withdrawal generally is not considered dangerous for otherwise physically healthy drug users, according to medical and substance abuse experts. But it can have life-threatening consequences ...

The proportion of babies suffering withdrawal was especially pronounced in rural counties, increasing from 12.9% in 2003 to 2004 to 21.2% in 2012 to 2013, according to research published in the ...