St. Paul Emergency Medical Services (EMS) has implemented a new program to help treat patients struggling with addiction. Crews now carry suboxone, which can be administered to those in withdrawal.

Detoxing off heroin or opioids without medication is sheer hell. I should know. For many users, full-blown withdrawal is often foreshadowed by a yawn, or perhaps a runny nose, a sore back, sensitive ...

As a pharmacist for HCMC and Hennepin emergency services, Holly Drone has seen a lot. But when Drone described the pain of opiate withdrawal on patients, she turned to her clients’ and co-workers’ ...

Many patients unable to obtain the anti-addiction drug Suboxone due to strict federal requirements are turning toward illicit means to secure the medication, which ...

Providing all the tools that can save lives should be a number one priority in the fight against overdoses and addiction. To that end, state legislators should not hesitate to back a bill introduced ...