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Martin County Sheriff’s Office seizes largest fentanyl load in county’s history

Jeffry Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ortiz, 30, Yelson Daniel Alvarez-Ortiz, 26 and Carlos Antonio Almonte-Melo, 36, face 25 years in prison. Three men from New York were arrested Wednesday after, deputies say, they transported 10,000 fentanyl pills with a street value of $300,000. “When I walked up to that car and saw that bag, which turned out to […]

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Telehealth-Based Initiation Associated With Improved OUD Treatment Retention

Opioid use disorder (OUD) patients who initiated buprenorphine treatment through telehealth were found to be more likely to remain engaged with treatment longer than those who began treatment in a non-telehealth setting, according to a National Institute on Addictive Disorders (NIDA) study that was released on Wednesday. The findings, based on an analysis of Medicaid

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Recovery for Patients Prescribed Medications for OUD Jeopardized by Concurrent Polysubstance Use

While the use of medications has proven to be an effective strategy for treating opioid use disorder, practitioners must be aware of concurrent use of non-prescribed, illicit substances that can negatively impact treatment and potentially harm patients. At the recent Cape Cod Symposium on Addictive Disorders, Kelly Olson, PhD, director of clinical affairs for Millennium

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Fentanyl, liquid cocaine among the drugs found in cleaning supplies in Florida

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Fentanyl, liquid cocaine, and meth were among drugs found in cleaning supplies following a weeklong operation in the Martin, St. Lucie, and Indian River counties of Florida. The Florida Highway Patrol seized 16.2 grams of fentanyl, which is over 8,000 lethal doses, along with 346.36 grams of cocaine, 582.4 grams of

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Polysubstance Use, East-to-West Spread Observed With Xylazine

Inclusion in polysubstance use and a spread from the eastern half of the United States to the West—similar to that of fentanyl—emerged as key observations from a report on xylazine released by Millennium Health on Thursday. The Millennium Health Signals Report, published by the San Diego, California-based organization with more than 15 years of experience

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Clients, Families Experience Parallel Processes in Recovery

Families often are relegated to a peripheral role in traditional addiction treatment for a variety of reasons. However, families who incorporate recovery into their own lives, can maximize an individual’s chances of recovery, said Michael Barnes, PhD, LAC, LPC, chief clinical officer, Foundry Treatment Center Steamboat in Colorado. On Thursday at the Cape Cod Symposium,

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