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2. Neonatal withdrawal - Wikipedia

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   Neonatal withdrawal or neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) or neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) ... Supportive care is the first step in management, but this ...

3. Opioid withdrawal - Wikipedia

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   Opioid withdrawal is a set of symptoms (a syndrome) arising from the sudden cessation or reduction of opioids where previous usage has been heavy and prolonged. [1 ...

4. A fentanyl antidote is saving lives. But it isn’t ending the ...

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   Xylazine and sister drugs are longer-lasting anesthetics that delay opioid withdrawal, so users need fewer fixes – and thus take fewer rolls of the dice with death. ... Milas, the intensive care ...

5. Drug rehabilitation - Wikipedia

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   Patients with severe opioid addiction are being given brain implants to help reduce their cravings, in the first trial of its kind in the US. Treatment starts with a series of brain scans. Surgery follows with doctors making a small hole in the skull to insert a tiny 1mm electrode in the specific area of the brain that regulates impulses such ...

6. Opioid use disorder - Wikipedia

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   Opioid replacement therapy (ORT), also known as opioid substitution therapy (OST) or Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD), involves replacing an opioid, such as heroin. [ 110 ] [ 111 ] Commonly used drugs for ORT are methadone and buprenorphine/naloxone ( Suboxone ), which are taken under medical supervision. [ 111 ]

7. How to save a fentanyl victim: Key facts about naloxone - AOL

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   Dr. Bonnie Milas, an intensive care anesthesiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, uses fentanyl in combination with other drugs to treat critical patients. She also lost two sons to ...

8. Substance use disorder - Wikipedia

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   Withdrawal management is the medical and psychological care of patients who are experiencing withdrawal symptoms due to the ceasing of drug use. [48] Depending on the severity of use, and the given substance, early treatment of acute withdrawal may include medical detoxification .

9. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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   Clinics that dispensed painkillers proliferated with only the loosest of safeguards, until a recent coordinated federal-state crackdown crushed many of the so-called “pill mills.” As the opioid pain meds became scarce, a cheaper opioid began to take over the market — heroin. Frieden said three quarters of heroin users started with pills.