Portland Fire Bureau crews will start treating people for opiate addiction immediately after they’re revived from an overdose, using medications at the scene that are typically first administered at ...

Twenty-four percent of US adolescent treatment centers do not use a “lifesaving” medication. An article appeared today in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Treatments Used Among ...

• Access Hospital Dayton, a private, for-profit mental health services hospital that in April opened a new detoxification inpatient unit to treat patients for drug and alcohol abuse and co-occurring ...

A new study published in JAMA Network Open on May 7, 2026, engaged 42 national experts in hospital-based addiction treatment in a consensus-building process to develop best practices for ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Proniras Corporation (“Proniras”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment of substance use and specialty ...

In the early 2000s, Michelle Warfield worked at a factory, hauling heavy seats for Ford trucks on and off an assembly line. To suppress daily aches in her back and hips, her doctor prescribed opioid ...

Opiate withdrawal is typically associated with flu-like symptoms that can be severe but improve over time. In rare cases, death is possible when withdrawal leads to extreme dehydration, a dangerous ...

What is Kratom tea? This buzzy tea is made from the leaves of the kratom tree, which is native to Southeast Asia. Kratom is thought to act as a stimulant in smaller doses. In larger amounts, it has a ...

Since the Harrison Act of 1914 and until 2001 when new laws were passed about buprenorphine, (which will be discussed later,) narcotics have been products that have been “controlled” in the sense that ...