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 ...

More than 200 addiction medicine, social services and law enforcement professionals registered to attend the second annual opioid summit in Mississippi at the Oxford Conference Center.

Group therapy lets people share experiences. It makes them feel less alone. Medicines treat addiction, especially opioid and alcohol problems. MAT lowers cravings and withdrawal symptoms. It helps ...

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 ...

Hungary's announcement that it will start the year-long withdrawal process came as Orban welcomed Netanyahu in Budapest on the Israeli leader's first trip to Europe since 2023.

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.

But Ostfeld-Johns said they found they didn’t need the drug tests to identify babies who might, for example, develop symptoms of opioid withdrawal that would require special care. At the New ...

As Africa battles an opioid abuse surge, experts warn it could escalate into a full-blown addiction and mental health crisis if proper interventions are not implemented. Accessing opioid drugs in ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Opioids are a common medication used to alleviate pain after surgery, but the risk is palpable. Even when taken as prescribed, opioids can suppress someone’s drive to breathe ...

Three years have passed since the Ukrainian military liberated Bucha, a city located in a Kyiv suburb that was the scene of some of the worst known atrocities committed by Russian forces in the ...