Only 1 in 4 residential addiction treatment facilities caring for U.S. adolescents under 18 years old offer buprenorphine.
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opioids
- Mind & Brain
Restoring Control to a Particular Brain Region May Help to Prevent Return to Use of Opioids
The risk of opioid overdose can increase upon return to drug seeking and use, or relapse, after a period of not using the drug, or abstinence.
- Health & Medicine
Benzodiazepines: Understanding the Uses and Risks of this Widely Prescribed Medication
Benzodiazepines are a class of drugs that are commonly prescribed for the treatment of anxiety, insomnia, and other medical conditions.
There are concerns that rapid reductions in prescription opioids might provoke increased suicide risk among people who become desperate after they are taken off opioids.
- Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
GP’s Told to Stop Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
by Psychregby PsychregGPs should not prescribe opioids and other medicines like paracetamol to patients because they could be ‘harmful’ and cause addiction.