FRIDAY, Oct. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Receipt of methadone for opioid use disorder is associated with a lower risk for treatment discontinuation compared with buprenorphine/naloxone, according to ...

Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) had a lower risk of discontinuing methadone compared with buprenorphine/naloxone, and ...

Individuals receiving methadone had a lower risk of treatment discontinuation compared with those who received buprenorphine/naloxone. The risk of mortality while receiving treatment was similar ...

Naloxone brings drug abusers back to life. Methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone can help keep them there. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about issues at the ...

The Coalition for Health AI, whose members include the Mayo Clinic, Microsoft and Johns Hopkins, plans a network of quality ...

The progress made to mitigate the opioid use crisis still pales in comparison with the crucial effort needed to address it, ...

Finally everything came tumbling down while on summer holiday. I decided to go onto Suboxone (buprenorphine naloxone medicine) therapy. I did inpatient, and then did an intensive outpatient ...

a nasal spray version of naloxone, for purchase without a prescription. Federal officials have also prioritized widening ...

New therapies include buprenorphine, naloxone and various apps for tracking and keeping former clients in touch with instant help. The National Institute of Drug Abuse has a graph that shows that ...

At Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, people who have overdosed are sent home with a prescription for a drug that combines buprenorphine and naloxone (sold under the brand name Suboxone).

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Buprenorphine is a partial μ-agonist whose toxic effects cannot be easily reversed with naloxone. Buprenorphine has a very high affinity for the μ-receptor and most likely affects μ-receptor ...