EVERETT, Wash. — The Everett Fire Department’s Emergency Medical Services Division (EMS) has launched a new pilot programto allow paramedics to administer buprenorphine, to help with opiate withdrawal ...

Extended-release 7-day injectable buprenorphine was safe and tolerable for most patients who had minimal-to-mild opioid withdrawal, a nonrandomized trial found. Among 100 adult patients with ...

At first glance, the dark green leaves of the Mitragyna speciosa tree look no more remarkable than mint leaves. They’re large (up to seven inches long and four inches wide), somewhat oval in shape, ...

Officials in Hennepin and Ramsey County are using buprenorphine, a medication to treat opiate withdrawals symptoms that affect a growing number of Minnesotans. More cities are taking notice. As a ...

This is the second post in a series on non-medication approaches for alcohol and drug abuse. Opioid addiction is a public health crisis in the U.S. It is estimated that as many as 36 million Americans ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who participated in yoga sessions alongside usual care reached withdrawal stabilization 4.4 times ...

Heroin, or opiate, withdrawal is the gold standard of addiction withdrawal. Imagine the worst flu of your life and then imagine knowing that taking a hit of this stuff will make it all better. Think ...

(AP) One Halloween night, in a blacked-out bedroom in Bangkok’s Chinatown, Steven Martin went into physical and mental free fall. High fever oscillated with shivering cold, gut-wrenching stomach pains ...