Outside the hospital, use of methadone to treat pain carries a 46 percent increased risk of death when compared to the equally effective but more costly alternative, morphine SR (sustained release).

After years of opioid use, Bob saw three paths ahead: jail, death or methadone. The 70-year-old Stevens Point resident chose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jake Van Horn, chief program officer at Cabin Creek Health Systems, and Dr. Amanda Borrer, medical director of Cabin Creek’s ...

Factors that affect the pharmacologic effectiveness of methadone include comorbid medical disorders, pregnancy, and drug interactions. [13] The potential medical and social costs of opiate dependence ...

CHICAGO — Consensus guidelines designed to reduce methadone-related overdoses in patients being treated for pain are a good starting place for physicians wishing to safely use methadone in palliative ...

The first big update to U.S. methadone regulations in 20 years is poised to expand access to the life-saving drug starting next month, but experts say the addiction treatment changes could fall flat ...

Choices Executive Director Mary Martin said people with drug addictions call every day asking when the clinic will open. “I just want to hang on a little bit longer,” they tell her. She tells them to ...

Researchers found that buprenorphine for opioid use disorder treatment during pregnancy was linked to better outcomes for newborns than methadone and to similar outcomes for 8-year-olds.

Medications for opioid-use disorder (OUD) are associated with lower death rates and improved quality of life for people in recovery. But which of the most commonly used medications for OUD are most ...

The government is set to introduce two new drugs to help supplement Methadone which is used by recovering addicts. The two drugs, buprenorphine and naltrexone, will be rolled out in June.

MIDDLETOWN — A new drug addiction center has opened in Middletown and another treatment center that opened two years ago has been licensed to administer methadone that treats narcotic drug addiction.

ATLANTA - The DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office wants to know more about drug deals that allegedly took place inside the Atlanta VA, with a social worker accused of buying bottles of methadone ...