Opiate withdrawal is typically associated with flu-like symptoms that can be severe but improve over time. In rare cases, death is possible when withdrawal leads to extreme dehydration, a dangerous ...

In the U.S., nearly two million people abuse prescription opioid painkillers. For many, an initial prescription to treat pain leads to a dangerous dependence and misuse that contributes to around ...

Twenty-four percent of US adolescent treatment centers do not use a “lifesaving” medication. An article appeared today in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Treatments Used Among ...

Opiate drugs and medications — such as morphine, heroin, and codeine — can be detected in a urine test up to 3 days after use. The words “opiate” and “opioid” are used interchangeably, but they’re not ...

In Vermont, more than 100 people die every year from opiate overdoses. Hundreds of people in Chittenden County suffer non-fatal opiate overdoses every year. Public consumption of drugs continues to ...

“I have had little or no sleep, owing to the tooth ache or rather stump ache,” Elizabeth Drinker wrote in her diary one night in 1796. “One of my Eye teeth very sore, my face much swelled and painful.