This treatment phase is followed by tapering (gradually reducing) the drugs or transitioning to a maintenance therapy plan. Maintenance therapy for opioid use disorder can include drugs like ...

The study tested different methods of training healthcare providers so they could help their patients better manage chronic ...

weaning method, and number and percentage of IWS subjects. For cross-study comparisons, opioid and benzodiazepine doses were converted to morphine and midazolam equivalents. Specifically ...

Take as needed for pain.” They’re familiar words, found on prescription labels. But what happens when pills become gateways to dependence? Local medical staff, health officials and law ...

Once off of dexmedetomidine infusion, 22 of 89 patients (25%) required an increase in their daily opioid dose (14% dose increase), whereas 65 (66%) continued to wean off of opioids. Benzodiazepine ...

Falls.MD announced a new service this month: medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. Opioid abuse was associated with 694 deaths and another 2,074 overdoses in Minnesota last year, ...