Buprenorphine is a narcotic medication that prevents withdrawal symptoms and reduces craving without producing a high, which ...

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Remember the goal of treatment is to restore respiratory drive and airway reflexes, prevent respiratory and cardiac arrest, and avoid causing severe opioid withdrawal [1]. Initial care for ...

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 ...

Despite signs of decline, the number of people dying nationwide from overdoses has eclipsed 100,000 annually between 2020 and 2023, according to national health data. But an opioid overdose doesn’t ...

Wellpath, a health care provider for hospitals, prisons and jails, has been dogged by wrongful death and medical negligence ...

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.

Community leaders say the time to help immigrant youth is before they start using opioids. Urban Village and the Karen ...

Dec. 30, 2024 — The hormone estrogen regulates binge drinking in females, causing them to 'pregame' -- consume large quantities of alcohol in the first 30 minutes after it's offered, according ...