The safer approach. It's usually best to start with a short-acting opioid. Because long-acting drugs are more likely to be stolen, misused, and abused, if your doctor prescribes one, expect ...

Tactics used to persuade U.S. doctors that potent painkillers could be safely prescribed have been used abroad, an ...

"Fentanyl can be a short-action drug and a long-acting drug. So some people they ... Fentanyl abuse isn't the only opioid ...

short-acting, and rapid-onset opioid preparations to help meet the needs of individual chronic pain patients. Experts And Viewpoints, March 27, 2007 Dose Finding for Breakthrough Pain To date ...

More than 1 million Americans use Medicaid to get addiction treatments like methadone. But as states update their systems, ...

The approval of lofexidine was supported by data from 2 clinical trials that included adult patients who were physically dependent on short-acting opioids (eg, heroin, hydrocodone, oxycodone).

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Drug overdose mortality has risen faster among adolescents than the general population in recent years, largely due to fentanyl, a potent opioid pain medication. A new study published in JAMA sheds ...

Recent experiences during the COVID epidemic, overdoses, and the fentanyl epidemics caused experts to call for expanding ...

A new study from Mass General Brigham researchers provides evidence that large language models (LLMs), used for generative artificial intelligence (AI), ChatGPT-4 and Google's Gemini, demonstrated no ...

Supervised induction: 8mg once on Day 1 and 16mg once on Day 2. Dependent on heroin or short-acting opioids: initiate induction at least 4hrs after last opioid use. Dependent on methadone or long ...

The opioid heroin is typical of such drugs ... and lasts a week to 10 days. For drugs like short-acting benzodiazepine tranquilizers (Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan) withdrawal begins in 1-4 ...