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 ...

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 ...

Xylazine and sister drugs are longer-lasting anesthetics that delay opioid withdrawal, so users need fewer fixes – and thus take fewer rolls of the dice with death. Xylazine and medetomidine ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

It's been touted as a treatment for pain, anxiety, and depression and a way to ease symptoms of opiate withdrawal. Kratom tea is marketed as a plant-based treatment for these conditions and a way ...

The Utah Attorney General's Office sued UnitedHealth Group and Express Scripts Monday, alleging they facilitated the ...