Emergency room doctors at three area health systems collected data on patients who had experienced severe withdrawal symptoms ...

Prescriptions to prevent cravings and withdrawal symptoms see growth, but remain a fraction of opioid prescription counts.

As the opioid crisis continues ... in some cases, treatment with medications like morphine to relieve withdrawal symptoms. The current investigation, led by first author Kevin Lam, PharmD ...

For 20 years, help in Union County for opioid addiction started at the McCleod Centers for Wellbeing on U.S. Highway 74 in ...

A paper published this month in the journal Current Addiction Reports discusses the merits of intranasal medications that can ...

The symptoms of withdrawal are a major reason for relapse and further prescription drug abuse. But medications can help you through opioid withdrawal and prevent symptoms. After the initial detox ...

The drug reduces opioid withdrawal symptoms and cravings ... The increased access to both medications is heartening for Craig Uthe, a family physician at Sanford and local spokesman for the ...

Researchers are investigating how the proper dosage of a common anti-nausea medication might ease withdrawal symptoms and reduce hospital stays.

A new study in the peer-reviewed Journal of Correctional Health Care describes a pilot program designed to provide harm reduction and medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) services among ...

As the opioid crisis continues, the number of babies born with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) – a condition that affects infants whose mothers used opioids during pregnancy – has risen ...

Nearly all of the for-profit company's 1,900 patients are on Medicaid, government-funded health insurance for low-income ...