Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is the use of medications in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, which is effective in the treatment of opioid use disorders (OUD) and can help some people to sustain recovery. There are three drugs approved by …
If you think you or someone you know may be addicted to opioids, there are signs to look for that will alert you that it’s time to get help. Opioid use disorder is a medical condition defined by not being …
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), from 1999-2017, almost 400,000 people died from an overdose involving any opioid, including prescription and illicit opioids. In the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community that patients would not become …
