Ethiqa XR now includes captive rodents and laboratory rabbits for 72-hour post-procedural pain management on its label ...

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

An updated evidence-based guideline aimed at helping clinicians and other health care providers manage patients with opioid ...

Starting November, Seattle will become the first U.S. city where emergency medical technicians and firefighters in the field can use buprenorphine to treat people who have overdosed on fentanyl ...

A bill passed during this fall’s special legislative session will allow a researcher with the West Virginia University ...

This paper included more than 30,000 patients with OUD and showed those on methadone were almost 60% significantly less ...

People with opioid use disorder in British Columbia who received methadone had a 37- to 40-percent lower rate of treatment discontinuation compared with those who received buprenorphine/naloxone.

Seattle will be the first city in the nation with first responders allowed to administer Buprenorphine — a medication that treats opioid use disorder — while in the field responding to a crisis.

But whether someone can access higher doses of buprenorphine — which works by curbing cravings and withdrawal from opioids — depends on where they live. In most states, Medicaid — the ...

An updated evidence-based guideline aimed at helping clinicians and other health care providers manage patients with opioid use disorder recommends buprenorphine and methadone as first-line treatments ...

Receipt of methadone for opioid use disorder is associated with a lower risk for treatment discontinuation compared with buprenorphine/naloxone, according to a study published online Oct. 17 in JAMA.

Starting November, Seattle will become the first U.S. city where emergency medical technicians and firefighters in the field ...