It’s changed our practice,” Pariser-Schmidt said. Vermont’s opioid overdoses increased almost 500% in the last 10 years, and Pariser-Schmidt believes tech like this is critical.

Screening people at risk for opioid use disorder when they’re admitted ... to an addiction specialist or monitored for opioid withdrawal, explained Afshar, who is also an associate professor ...

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.

Over 2 million Americans have opioid use disorder, according to some estimates. Illicit opioids such as heroin and fentanyl were responsible for over 80,000 U.S. overdose deaths in 2023. Despite the ...

He chose that number because it was close to 50,928 — the number of people who have died in Canada between 2016 and 2024 due to opioid abuse.

AND WE'RE GETTING MEANINGFUL RESULTS FROM IT. > AMERICAN MEDICAL RESPONSE REPORTED 49 SUSPECTED OPIOID OVERDOSE INCIDENTS ACROSS MANCHESTER IN NASHUA IN MARCH. AMR REGIONAL DIRECTOR..CHRIS STAWASZ ...

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-workers’ ...

From our clinical experience, after patients start to breathe normally, providing additional doses of naloxone does not seem to help and even risks prompting opioid withdrawal symptoms.

From our clinical experience, after patients start to breathe normally, providing additional doses of naloxone does not seem to help and even risks prompting opioid withdrawal symptoms.

The AI-based method was just as effective as a health provider-only approach in initiating addiction specialist consultations and recommending monitoring of opioid withdrawal. Compared to patients ...

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 ...