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 ...

But fentanyl has refocused attention on methadone. To get off the drug, buprenorphine can cause severe withdrawal symptoms ...

It was hard enough for Stephanie to get methadone treatment when she moved to Florida from Indiana last year. The nearest ...

But fentanyl has refocused attention on methadone. To get off the drug, buprenorphine can cause severe withdrawal symptoms before the person taking it feels OK again. For homeless people ...

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.

Suddenly, her methadone prescription cost much more than she could afford. She panicked, afraid a disruption in care would trigger debilitating withdrawal symptoms like vomiting, fever ...

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 ...