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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Proniras Corporation (“Proniras”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment of substance use and specialty ...

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, ...

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 ...

A study led by researchers at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM), Chinese Academy of Sciences, has shown that amygdala kappa-opioid receptor (KOR)-dependent upregulation of glutamate ...

Third-party research groups and organizations have validated a smartphone app called Reflex as a tool to help diagnose medical conditions like concussions and opiate withdrawal. Brightlamp CEO Kurtis ...

ENDING OPIOID DEPENDENCE. TOMMIE: DOCTORS IN HARFORD COUNTY HOPE THIS FDA CLEARED TREATMENT WILL MAKE THE PATH TO RECOVERY MORE ATTAINABLE. >> ONE OF THE BIGGEST BARRIERS FOR OPIATE RECOVERY IS OPIATE ...

(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 ...

A study in mice shows that removing chemical messengers in the brain that are involved in both wakefulness and addiction may make withdrawal from opioids easier and help prevent relapse. A study in ...