The settlement calls for a $600,000 payment to the estate of Brian Kimo O'Gorman after he suffered heart failure while withdrawing from methadone.

Jan. 14 -- WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Reduced dosages of dopamine agonists, drugs routinely used to treat Parkinson's disease, can cause symptoms similar to those experienced by addicts in ...

Children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) or juvenile enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) who attain remission while receiving combination therapy are less likely to flare when withdrawing ...

The substances abused must be determined early in treatment, because there are substantial differences in severe complications and in the management of withdrawal from alcohol and sedatives, opiates, ...

ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis County jail's inadequate medical system left a man suffering from drug withdrawal for hours, exacerbating a heart condition that ultimately killed him, according to a lawsuit ...

A March 17, 2025, article in the New York Times (updated March 24) by Ellen Barry worried me and should be read by all with an interest in mental health care. The article on Laura Delano’s national ...

Emergency rooms across Philadelphia have reported a rise in patients experiencing withdrawal from medetomidine, a veterinary sedative increasingly mixed with fentanyl. The citywide crisis — which ...

Substance withdrawal is the process the body goes through after discontinuing or reducing the amount of an addictive substance (e.g., nicotine, alcohol, opiates, and other drugs). Withdrawal symptoms ...

Although prescription rates for SSRIs and other psychiatric drugs are high worldwide, for periods longer than official guidelines recommend, reliable knowledge about how to take people off them safely ...

Health care workers say a powerful new street drug is clogging Pittsburgh-area emergency rooms with people suffering from violent withdrawal symptoms, including losing control, fighting with staff and ...