methadone

More than 1 million Americans use Medicaid to get addiction treatments like methadone. But as states update their systems, some patients have lost coverage. Even a short gap can be life-threatening.

Previously, Citrus residents had to travel to other counties in the region to access drugs like methadone, which can reduce opioid cravings and withdrawal symptoms in patients.

Overdose deaths from fentanyl and other opioids have surged but medications that could save thousands of lives "are sitting on the shelf unused," according to new research.

The highly regulated medication for opioid addiction has to be taken every day, otherwise patients risk a painful withdrawal. Normally, doses have to be picked up from a treatment center.

Dr. Wesley Boyd, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard, has spent years working with state programs that help doctors, nurses and other health…

A St. Augustine grandmother is charged with manslaughter after authorities say she accidentally gave her grandson a fatal dose of methadone.The St. Johns…

It's not even 6 a.m. when Amy and Christie begin a 45 minute drive south. The two friends are headed to a clinic in Hernando County where they’ll get a...

At a time when the U.S. government is trying to deal with a nationwide opioid epidemic, many jails across the country are only now rolling out medicines…

A former Florida doctor previously convicted in the overdose death of one of his patients has been sentenced 157 years in prison for drug trafficking.News…

U.S. regulators have approved the first generic version of an under-the-tongue film for treating opioid addiction.The Food and Drug Administration on…