The safety of a calorie deficit for weight loss depends on things like your starting weight, overall health and unique ...

Minnesota is seeking a Medicaid waiver to help cover incarcerated people’s health care, including substance use treatment, ...

For those struggling with addiction and substance abuse, medication-assisted recovery is an option. Dr. Drew Blackstock, an addictionologist at North Medical Center-Tupelo regularly treats individuals ...

Until very recently, I hadn’t even heard of naltrexone, the drug that would solve this for me – much like the weight loss ...

Teens are most at risk for taking dangerous counterfeit pills made to resemble Xanax, Adderall, or OxyContin. The most common ...

Just 44 percent of jails offer incarcerated people with opioid use disorder medications like methadone, buprenorphine or ...

Despite two-thirds of incarcerated people having substance use disorder, a new study reveals a lack of therapy options.

Many people who struggle with weight management may experience an uncontrollable, near-obsessive preoccupation with food. | ...

This medication is used to treat alcohol abuse. It is used only in people who have been able to stop drinking for some time before starting treatment with naltrexone. Nausea, headache, dizziness ...

Opioid use disorder can be a contributing factor to Americans landing in the nation's prisons and jails, but those inmates ...

Vivitrol shows reduced peaks and minimal fluctuations in plasma levels of the drug, which may improve the adverse effect profile compared with the oral preparation. In 2010, the FDA updated the ...

A Vivitrol program will be introduced for inmates at Union County Jail before the end of the year. At Tuesday's public meeting, Deputy Warden Ryan Boatman updated the county commissioners about the ...