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 ...

Xylazine and sister drugs are longer-lasting anesthetics that delay opioid withdrawal, so users need fewer fixes – and thus ...

While the numbers are finally starting to decline, more than 74,000 Americans are still dying every year from opioid ...

In the past few years, state and local governments across the U.S. have begun spending billions in opioid settlements paid by ...

James Mannion knew what he needed. For nine months, while incarcerated in a county jail in Portland, Maine, he pleaded for a ...

It also sells another buprenorphine-based opioid withdrawal product called Sublocade in the US, and recently claimed approval for the drug as Subutex in Sweden, its first European market.

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

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

Black men born 1951-1970 always have had the greatest risk of dying of overdoses, even in their 20s, 30s and 40s. It's true ...

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