The government is preparing to trial a medically-assisted treatment programme to help heroin users who want to quit the drug.

The opioid agonist drug to be used in the pilot scheme is methadone, a syrup that is taken once a day. OAT programs usually offer it alongside other forms of assistance, such as counselling or therapy ...

The federal government’s push to make Medicaid funding more flexible for drug addiction treatment in the past nine years has ...

Narcotics Anonymous and Salvation Army are often hostile to use of the addiction medications buprenorphine and methadone.

Twenty-one of 30 methadone-maintained patients in a TB clinic developed mild-to-severe narcotic-withdrawal symptoms when rifampin was added to their therapeutic regimens. [13] Urinary excretion of ...

More than 48 million Americans 12 years or older had a substance use disorder in 2022, yet only 24 percent received treatment ...

On learning last year she was pregnant with her second child, Cailyn Morreale was overcome with fear and trepidation.

Harris was in the NICU for three weeks, and he showed signs of neonatal-opioid-withdrawal symptoms even after I took him home ... and had to stay in the NICU for weeks. He was on methadone. It’s what ...

Overdose deaths recently have fallen but only among white people while continuing to rise among people of color, federal data ...

A new federal rule change has made methadone more accessible than ever, but many advocates and patients say it should be much ...

The UAMS Center for Addiction Services will be offering take-home methadone kits with a telehealth component.This means ...