Heroin DetoxRapid detox has become a standard for the accelerated detoxification of patients from opiates ranging from heroin to prescription pain relievers. The rapiddetox process is generally conducted in a hospital setting and under general anesthesia.
You’ve noticed some dramatic (and negative) changes in a loved one recently, and you’re wondering if drugs could be behind this worrying transformation.
Doctors and social workers in New York City have seen an increase in the number of white-collar professionals using OxyContin ® to get high, the New York Post reported Feb. 16.
Buprenorphine is the active ingredient in both Suboxone and Subutex. It is a synthetic opiate and works as a partial opiate agonist in the brain.
With individuals addicted to heroin waiting up to two-years for methadone treatment, Ohio officials are considering expanding the treatment system, the Associated Press reported Aug. 23.
Residents of the Gaza Strip have responded to the difficulties of an Israeli blockade with increasing rates of self-medication with synthetic opioids and other recreational pharmaceuticals.
By 2005, Britannia Pharmaceuticals Ltd. of Great Britain could have its drug lofexidine available in the U.S. to help detoxify individuals addicted to heroin and other opiates, the Wall Street Journal reported Nov. 18.
In a bid to foil local authorities, a Budapest heroin dealer chose a hiding place for his heroin stash where nobody would ever consider looking.