The agents were
particularly interested in the facility's practices when it came to an even smaller subset of those scheduled
drugs: the highly
addictive pain medicines containing oxycodone and hydrocodone that have been at the center of the nation's opioid epidemic.
According to the MedUni Vienna forensic medicine experts, these results will in turn impact upon the future treatment and management of people with opiate dependencies and heroin addicts,
particularly when it comes to
drug withdrawal: «If the
addictive craving persists in the brain for months, it is very important to provide protracted after - care and corresponding psychological support,» says Seltenhammer.