El tratamiento con metadona ayuda a reducir el uso de fentanilo y heroína, muestra un estudio
JUEVES, 11 de mayo de 2023 (HealthDay News) — Cuando las personas reciben tratamiento con metadona para el trastorno por el uso de opioides, su uso de dos drogas peligrosas, la heroína y el fentanilo, se reduce de forma significativa, muestra un nuev…
Learn MoreMethadone Treatment Does Help Curb Fentanyl, Heroin Use, Study Shows
THURSDAY, May 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) — When people receive methadone treatment for opioid use disorder, their use of the dangerous drugs heroin and fentanyl significantly declines, a new study shows. But decreases in cocaine or methamphetamine use…
Learn More2016 to 2021 Saw Increase in Drug Overdose Rates Involving Fentanyl
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) — From 2016 to 2021, there was an increase in age-adjusted drug overdose death rates involving fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine, according to a May Vital Statistics Rapid Release report, a publication fr…
Learn MoreUn suministro más amplio de naloxona, un antídoto de los opioides, no fomenta el uso de heroína: estudio
MIÉRCOLES, 8 de marzo de 2023 (HealthDay News) — Una nueva investigación encuentra que una disponibilidad más amplia de la naloxona, un tratamiento, no aumenta el uso de la heroína entre los adolescentes de EE. UU., lo que contradice a las preocupaci…
Learn MoreNaloxone Access Not Linked to Teen Substance Use
THURSDAY, March 9, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Naloxone access does not promote high-risk adolescent substance use behaviors, according to a study published in the April issue of the International Journal of Drug Policy.Emilie Bruzelius, M.P.H., from Col…
Learn MoreWider Supply of Opioid Antidote Naloxone Won’t Encourage Heroin Use: Study
WEDNESDAY, March 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Contrary to concerns, wider availability of naloxone treatment is not increasing heroin use among U.S. teens, new research finds.Naloxone (Narcan) quickly reverses an overdose from opioids like heroin, fent…
Learn MoreU.S. Deaths Involving Meth Are Skyrocketing, Fentanyl a Big Factor
TUESDAY, Feb. 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Deaths from methamphetamine among Americans increased 50-fold between 1999 and 2021, a chilling new study reports.Most of these deaths also involved heroin or fentanyl, according to researchers.”The staggerin…
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