Wisconsin should not use opioid settlement dollars on treatments that don't work such as the higher-dose formulations of the ...

This article outlines the assessment and management of opioid withdrawal in police custody. It highlights the prevalence of opioid dependency among individuals in custody, the associated stigma and ...

Standing in the bitter cold outside the DeCoach Recovery Centre, a drug treatment clinic on the edge of an ocean of car parking in Hamilton, Ohio, Scott Weaver explains where his life went off ...

Acute opioid withdrawal has been described to me as a feeling worse than death. As those suffering from opioid use disorder are familiar with use of an opioid as a way to ease withdrawal symptoms ...

An unregulated herbal substance sold throughout North Dakota has fallen under the crosshairs of legislators in Bismarck, who ...

Xylazine and sister drugs are longer-lasting anesthetics that delay opioid withdrawal, so users need fewer fixes – and thus take fewer rolls of the dice with death. Xylazine and medetomidine ...

Its sole purpose and effect is to reverse an overdose. However, naloxone can trigger sudden opioid withdrawal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting for racing heart. Naloxone works for all opioids ...

I was still trying to be a wife and a mother, which I was failing at both, and I was not able to hold a job, because, when you run out of pills every three days, opiate withdrawal is excruciating.

and regularly misuses opioids, stopping that use can lead to withdrawal symptoms. For this reason, treatment with these drugs can be complex. Tools such as the ORT can help doctors determine ...