At first glance, the dark green leaves of the Mitragyna speciosa tree look no more remarkable than mint leaves. They’re large (up to seven inches long and four inches wide), somewhat oval in shape, ...

Afghanistan's drug trade is booming just two years after the U.S. military withdrew from the country, with opium sales tripling in 2022 alone. A new report from the United Nations’ Office on Drugs and ...

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Among 100 adult patients with minimal-to-mild opioid withdrawal scores who were given a 24-mg dose of extended-release buprenorphine, only 10 people (10%, 95% CI 4.9% ...

Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth. The infant is going through drug withdrawal and is being ...

(AP) One Halloween night, in a blacked-out bedroom in Bangkok’s Chinatown, Steven Martin went into physical and mental free fall. High fever oscillated with shivering cold, gut-wrenching stomach pains ...

Sparian Biosciences Inc. has been awarded a $19.5 million, 5-year grant to fund development of SBS-226 from IND submission through phase I development. SBS-226 is a first-in-class dual μ-opioid ...

A Manitoba provincial court judge says the Winnipeg Remand Centre should address lack of medical oversight and “clear and persistent” nurse understaffing in a new inquest report into a man’s drug ...

Sedation rapid opiate detox treatment is for motivated patients who want to live free of all opiates without substituting Suboxone or Methadone. Acute withdrawals are the main reason why such patients ...