Methadone Symptoms

New Online Tool to Help Parents with Children Addicted to Opioids
When used as detoxification medications, methadone and buprenorphine can reduce withdrawal symptoms and cravings for opioids. When used as maintenance medications, they suppress withdrawal and cravings and actively contribute to a reduction in …
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Parental substance abuse the main reason kids end up in foster care
They lived in a cardboard shack with no running water or bathroom, and Bissell alternated between using methadone and heroin throughout her pregnancy. She didn't … Babies of women who used opiates often face withdrawal symptoms, too. Nationwide …
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COMT Inhibitors Up Adherence to Opioid Maintenance Treatment
Previous research has shown that COMT inhibitors can help in the successful detoxification of buprenorphine, methadone, and other opiates, owing to their ability to help balance dopamine, which is central to the reward/dependence pathway that leads to …
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