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Hospitals have faced mounting pressure in recent years to find better treatments for patients who are in the throes of opioid withdrawal. The challenge of safely managing these patients' symptoms is ...

Sedation rapid opiate detox treatment is for motivated patients who want to live free of all opiates without substituting Suboxone or Methadone. Acute withdrawals are the main reason why such patients ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — As California struggles to stem a tragic tide of fatal fentanyl overdoses, a global pharmaceutical company will pay more than $100 million for allegedly stifling access to ...

Lucemyra (lofexidine) is a brand-name drug prescribed to treat opioid withdrawal symptoms in adults. Lucemyra comes as an oral tablet that you typically take four times per day. The Food and Drug ...

Providing all the tools that can save lives should be a number one priority in the fight against overdoses and addiction. To that end, state legislators should not hesitate to back a bill introduced ...

Vomit covered Deyonta Green’s face and blood had pooled in his skull by the time Anoka County jail staff finally intervened in a harrowing and untreated weeklong spiral of heroin withdrawals, ...

Front Royal Treatment Center, a Pinnacle Treatment Centers facility, in Front Royal, Virginia, is an outpatient opioid treatment program (OTP) providing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) with ...