Hospitalized opioid users were more likely to start medication treatment if they received addiction consultation services They were also more likely to follow up with a treatment program after their ...
A US study of more than a million Medicaid enrollees newly diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD), finds most—nearly seven ...
America’s overdose crisis isn’t the simple story we’ve been told for years. A new investigation reveals how two key graphs — ...
(NEXSTAR) — Chicago is taking a proactive approach when it comes to harm reduction from fentanyl use. The Chicago Recovery Alliance has taken that fight to the streets with a drug detection device ...
Opioids are still widely prescribed, but have limited effectiveness and are associated with serious harms. De-prescribing ...
The epidemic of synthetic opioids is destructive to communities such as our hometown of Longmont, Colorado, and other cities ...
A new study identified four subgroups of opioid users: use as prescribed, prescribed misusers, medically healthy abusers and illicit users, according to findings published in PLoSONE. Researchers ...
As users of heroin and other opioids get older, their risk for overdose death increases dramatically, a new study of age trends in excess deaths shows. Although male users had almost double the rate ...
A recent study explodes the myth that the risk of addiction to prescription opioids exists only among patients abusing their opioids. Until recently, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) ...
How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...
Stemming the tide of opioid addiction in Central Illinois takes that person-to-person connection, a realization that substance abuse disorder can happen to anyone—a child, a sibling, a spouse, a ...
Widely sold at convenience stores, delis and gas stations on Staten Island and throughout the United States, kratom is legal ...
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