Opiates | Addiction Treatment Strategies

 
A bill co-sponsored by Senator Chuck Schumer (NY) and Jay Rockefeller (WV) would require doctors to receive training for prescribing opiate-based narcotics, the Times Union reports. The training would cover clinical standards on safe management of pain, help doctors better identify…

Buprenorphine is a synthetic opioid that is used for pain management and was approved in 2002 to treat opioid dependence.
What are the forms of buprenorphine? Although there are several forms of buprenorphine (including Buprenex®, an injectable liquid used for pain treatment), only Subutex®…

Academics PROFIT By Making the Case for Opioid Painkillers
As an epidemic of narcotic painkiller abuse raged across America in 2006, researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a medical journal report connecting deaths from those drugs to up to a 500% increase…

 
ScienceDaily
Opiate abuse is a chronic disorder and maintaining abstinence represents a major challenge for addicts. Individuals recovering from opiate dependence have long reported that while the acute withdrawal symptomsfrom opiates may pass relatively quickly, they do not feel…

Dual Diagnosis: The Solution
Increased Awareness Is a Key
When patients with major mental health disorders and co-existing alcohol or substance addictions have been diagnosed correctly, proper treatment is not always available.
It is difficult for mental health care professionals to accurately…

Drug trials show positive results with opioid addiction
(12/14/2010)
News release
San Diego — Drug addiction investigators with joint appointments at Columbia University Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, along with MediciNova, Inc., a…