When Denver Health wanted to open an inpatient opioid detox unit specifically for teens, doctors there searched high and low for a model to copy. They didn’t find one. Teens who land in emergency ...

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — Pierce County’s opioid crisis has reached alarming levels, with accidental overdoses surpassing car crashes as the leading cause of accidental death. Last year, 423 people died ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Detox Family Nurse Practitioner Kendall Romig joined East Texas Now’s Jeremy Butler to talk about the announcement of over-the-counter Narcan, a nasal-administered drug used in ...

When you or someone you love is suffering from a substance use disorder, it can inflict harm on your life in many different ways. More than 2.5 million Americans are struggling with an opioid use ...

Current recommendations dissuade pregnant women with opioid dependence from undergoing detoxification due to the risk of preterm labor, fetal distress or fetal demise. New research, however, shows ...

ATLANTA — Georgia will be using majority of its $13 million from a multi-state opioid settlement to expand treatment programs and opioid detox services. Gov. Brian P. Kemp announced the receipt of the ...

Pierce County’s only facility offering medically supervised drug detox will double the number of days clients facing opioid use disorder can spend in its care, an effort to improve outcomes and combat ...

Front Royal Treatment Center, a Pinnacle Treatment Centers facility, in Front Royal, Virginia, is an outpatient opioid treatment program (OTP) providing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) with ...

Teens who land in emergency rooms with an opioid overdose generally receive naloxone to reverse the effects of dangerous drugs in their system and are sent home with a list of places they can go for ...