they offer no benefit in the prevention or treatment of alcohol withdrawal seizures or delirium tremens. Therefore, we believe that the only role for α 2-agonists is as adjunctive medication to ...

This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: 44% of jails have medication to treat opioid withdrawal which can ...

Medetomidine is a non-opioid animal sedative increasingly used with fentanyl in illicit drug mixtures. It causes overdose ...

It helps my patients to stay alive until they can get into treatment, and continue in ... has been commented on in other states. Acute opioid withdrawal has been described to me as a feeling ...

Despite that, very few people who are struggling with addiction get treatment. William Brangham ... when you run out of pills every three days, opiate withdrawal is excruciating.

As a physician specializing in addiction, I agree overdose reversal drugs are vital. Not all overdose agents are equally ...

This five-week-old boy is one of nearly 300 infants a year treated for opioid withdrawal at Cabell Huntington Hospital in West Virginia. He sleeps under the soothing touch of his mother, Jordann ...

They included not prohibiting or restricting bar applicants and attorneys from taking medication to treat opioid use disorder ... to be effective in curbing withdrawal symptoms and cravings ...

The case reports described in this review article demonstrate the benefit that patients have derived from the adjunctive ... to their current treatment regimen for alcohol withdrawal.