Hospitals have faced mounting pressure in recent years to find better treatments for patients who are in the throes of opioid withdrawal. The challenge of safely managing these patients' symptoms is ...

Rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome surged in recent years, but a newer approach to caring for newborn babies exposed to opioids during pregnancy gets them out of the hospital sooner and with less ...

A dose of hope for opioid withdrawal. The process of getting clean from opioid addiction can bring on intense physical symptoms that can last for weeks. But promising new research suggests one zen ...

Over 2 million Americans have opioid use disorder, according to some estimates. Illicit opioids such as heroin and fentanyl were responsible for over 80,000 U.S. overdose deaths in 2023. Despite the ...

Suboxone can cut the risk of death in half and give patients relief and time to consider long-term treatment options.

Compared to patients adherent to monthly injectable buprenorphine, patients on other MOUD (adherent and non-adherent) were 3.5 to 8.1x more ...

An early-stage randomized trial showed that yoga alongside standard buprenorphine therapy hastened opioid withdrawal recovery and improved autonomic regulation compared with buprenorphine alone.

Adding yoga to standard care for opioid use disorder (OUD) may speed up recovery from opioid withdrawal and improve nervous system regulation, results from a new randomized clinical trial suggested.