Medications proven to effectively treat opioid addiction are rarely given after emergency department visits for overdose, and ...

The massive national effort to return the Medicaid enrollment process to its pre-pandemic rules starting in April 2023 may ...

Hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and many others are all different types of opioids typically prescribed by doctors to treat ...

But buprenorphine’s strength as a treatment is also a weakness. Buprenorphine is an opioid. Like methadone, the tightly ...

Medicaid paying for the treatment of a patient’s substance use disorder makes financial sense, an emergency room-based ...

Opioid addiction is a chronic medical condition. It can create long-term changes to your brain. Luckily, early treatment intervention can help you avoid some of the long-term health conditions ...

Nearly all of the for-profit company's 1,900 patients are on Medicaid, government-funded health insurance for low-income ...

Researchers found that Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) can help rewire the brain's response to natural healthy pleasure, leading to reduced opioid cravings. The findings suggest that ...

Prescriptions to prevent cravings and withdrawal symptoms see growth, but remain a fraction of opioid prescription counts.