Opioid withdrawal can cause symptoms, such as restlessness, excessive sweating, and digestive issues, among others. Intense symptoms may require hospitalization. Opioids are a class of drugs that ...

This article outlines the assessment and management of opioid withdrawal in police custody. It highlights the prevalence of opioid dependency among individuals in custody, the associated stigma and ...

The death toll from fentanyl is falling as communities flood the streets with naloxone, an overdose-reversal drug. But deadly ...

There is a significantly higher 90-day hospital readmission rate amonginfants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome compared to those without.

States have spent about a third of the more than $6 billion in opioid settlement funds they received in 2022 and 2023 and set ...

An Arizona nonprofit focused on newborn babies exposed to addictive substances had a large insurer come back for its ...

Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2015;16(2):175-183. Common themes suggested three categories of risk factors associated with IWS: patient-, process-, and system-level factors, which were synthesized into a ...

and regularly misuses opioids, stopping that use can lead to withdrawal symptoms. For this reason, treatment with these drugs can be complex. Tools such as the ORT can help doctors determine ...

Dr. Laura Lyons has seen the city's opioid crisis change and deepen from a vantage point that's different than most: the ...

The FDA approved the first non-opioid treatment for the management of opioid withdrawal symptoms in 2018. The treatment, Lucemyra (lofexidine hydrochloride), was found to be able to help nearly ...