Overdose prevention centers and heroin-assisted treatment have emerged as evidence-based solutions capable of saving lives, ...

NAS is a condition where infants experience withdrawal symptoms due to exposure to substances like opioids in the womb. Maternal opioid-related diagnoses increased by around 130% from 2010 to 2017.

The FDA approved the first non-opioid treatment for the management of opioid withdrawal symptoms in 2018. The treatment, Lucemyra (lofexidine hydrochloride), was found to be able to help nearly ...

Further testing revealed that these specific T-reg cells were pumping out the endogenous opioid enkephalin in response to activation by progesterone and estrogen. "The fact that there's a sex ...

The team in Pretoria have built relationships with the drug users, encouraging them to accept an opioid-substitution ... He acknowledged that drug withdrawal can be painful, as people accept ...

It also sells another buprenorphine-based opioid withdrawal product called Sublocade in the US, and recently claimed approval for the drug as Subutex in Sweden, its first European market.

In a report sent Thursday, OPD said their team found a “highly potent synthetic opioid,” called carfentanil, in the metro. OPD said the drug has been found in M-30 blue pill form, but it may ...

MAT works by using medication to block brain receptors targeted by substances like opioids, reducing craving and withdrawal symptoms. This evidence-based approach increases the likelihood of ...

The team in Pretoria includes doctors and social workers who have built relationships with the drug users, encouraging them to accept an opioid-substitution ... that drug withdrawal can be painful ...

“The highly addictive nature of brown sugar, characterised by intense cravings and severe withdrawal symptoms ... s needle exchange programme and Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) have had ...

Pharmaceutical companies accused of fueling the nation’s opioid crisis are paying state and local governments billions of ...

Ferguson said $1.6 million from the Cowlitz Tribal Foundation enabled the nonprofit to keep the doors open at NorthStar Clinic, which serves 850 people with opioid-use disorder. Programs are also ...