One in six inpatients with opioid use disorder leave the hospital before completing treatment, possibly due to untreated withdrawal symptoms, a new study shows.
Despite ongoing hostilities, healthcare professionals take mobile clinics to their fellow Ukrainians, as the battle extends to fighting the country s high levels of hepatitis C.
Aggressive marketing of OxyContin from the mid-1990s led to an increase in viral and bacterial complications of injection drug use as well as illicit opioid-related deaths 25 years later.