Studies show that ibogaine can be effective for short-term opioid addiction treatment, especially reducing drug cravings and some withdrawal symptoms.

SAFER PRESCRIPTION Pot’s pain-reducing properties could help address maladies that lead to opioid addiction. (Photo by NMK-Studio, Shutterstock) Despite a relative lack of scientific studies of ...

Rochester Institute of Technology students from the Center for Public Safety Initiatives hope visitors to this year’s Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on May 6 will take a minute to ...

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...

Officials in Hennepin and Ramsey County are using buprenorphine, a medication to treat opiate withdrawals symptoms that affect a growing number of Minnesotans. More cities are taking notice. As a ...

Recovery from opiate addiction is not an easy path. For those attempting to stop, withdrawal symptoms can feel like a full-body rebellion; nausea and muscle aches, chills, anxiety, insomnia, and mood ...

For those who’ve experienced the legendary tow of opiates, a deepening cycle of despair and deliverance is commonplace. For the rest of us it is hard to imagine what motivates such futile and ...

The rise in the number of women seeking help comes at a time when Western New York hospitals are seeing more babies born addicted to opiates. The state Health Department has determined that as many as ...