Proponents of the plan to equip paramedics with buprenorphine call it the "missing link" in the bridge to recovery for many ...

cutting back or stopping these drugs after prolonged use can cause withdrawal symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea, anxiety ...

Withdrawal, like addiction itself, reflects the capacity of the brain to adapt to experience. Addiction doesn’t develop overnight; over time, the repeated use of psychoactive drugs reprograms ...

and vomiting of heroin withdrawal. The old model also didn’t explain perhaps the most insidious aspect of addiction: relapse. Why do people long for the burn of whiskey in the throat or the warm ...

KGNS spoke with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Roots Recovery Center on their role in decreasing the amount of opioid-related overdose deaths.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, when fentanyl overdoses surged, doctors were desperate to find ways of helping their patients.

Fiona French from Aberdeen says the prescription drug she was put on 40 years ago led to decades of suffering that only ended after a three-year withdrawal which she describes as "hell and torture".

When birth abruptly shuts down the flow of the drug, the baby’s nervous system can trigger the agitating symptoms of withdrawal. Studies show that 55 percent to 94 percent of newborns exposed to ...

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 ...