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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Morgan County has agreed to a settlement of $6 million after the 2022 death of inmate Brian Downs. Here's what happened.