Researchers analyzed the availability of medications for opioid use disorder at psychiatric hospitals in the US.

Less than half of survey respondents provided medications for opioid use disorder. Further, 30% of the psychiatric facilities offering medically managed withdrawal did not provide these medications.

Increasing the levels of chemicals naturally produced in the body called endocannabinoids may thwart the highly addictive nature of opioids such as morphine and oxycodone while maintaining the drugs' ...

The failure of the trial of the drug AZD4041 by pharma giant AstraZeneca, to combat opioid use disorder (OUD), highlights the ...

In recent months, opioid deaths have decreased in the District for the first time since 2018. What has led to this change?

It's important to talk to a healthcare provider if you want to use kratom tea to ease opioid withdrawal. Several medications can decrease withdrawal symptoms. Kratom is legal in some places ...

Objectives Analgesia and sedation are common therapies in pediatric critical care, and rapid titration of these medications ... iatrogenic withdrawal syndrome following either opioid or ...

A B.C. pharmacist who filed a human rights complaint after he was initially barred from practising, due to his intent to take ...

Scientists have revealed that opioid receptors outside the brain play a key role in the hypoventilation caused by fentanyl overdoses, paving the way for better treatments.

Patients, especially women, with PTSD in low-income areas were more likely to rapidly reduce or discontinue opioids than those in high-income areas.

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 ...