The number of patients with substance abuse disorders who are admitted to hospitals as inpatients has been steadily ...

A seven-day, extended-release version of buprenorphine — a treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) that can reduce opioid use and overdose deaths — is safe and effective for people with OUD ...

EVERETT, Wash. — The Everett Fire Department’s Emergency Medical Services Division (EMS) has launched a new pilot programto allow paramedics to administer buprenorphine, to help with opiate withdrawal ...

Ever since fentanyl came to dominate the U.S. illicit drug supply, doctors and patients have found buprenorphine, a key addiction-treatment medication, increasingly difficult to use. All too often, ...

Desirée Rodriguez, 35, was in a car accident in 2015 that resulted in horrible back pain. Her doctor prescribed the Austin mother of four an opioid to relieve the pain. Rodriguez went from taking one ...

RIDGEFIELD, Wash. — First responders in Clark County are participating in a pilot project through the Washington State Department of Health in which they are offering patients an additional medication ...

Response to buprenorphine among emergency department (ED) patients using fentanyl was similar to that in patients using other opioids, based on data from nearly 900 individuals. California emergency ...