Sentences with phrase «treating symptoms of withdrawal»

In another study, passion flower was also found to be just as effective as the drug clonidine for treating symptoms of withdrawal.

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They have also made more training available to physicians interested in being certified providers of buprenorphine, an opioid medication that curbs cravings and withdrawal symptoms in those addicted to drugs and are looking forward to targeting such training to physicians who treat adolescent and teenage patients, Burstein said.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse is pursuing a mix of approaches that include developing non-opioid pain medicines, conducting research on vaccines that may blunt the impact of fentanyl and its related offshoots, getting public health organizations to increase the availability and use of medications already available to treat opioid addiction and getting medications such as buprenorphine and naloxone, which suppress withdrawal symptoms and ease cravings, into the hands emergency room doctors dealing with patients with opioid addictions.

Among other initiatives needed are more rigorous analysis of the potency of illicit drugs being sold on the streets, information campaigns to inform the public of the analyses results and likely dangers, more treatment therapies to ease withdrawal symptoms, programs to get primary care doctors to treat and screen for addictions and wider distribution of Naltrexone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, said Ciccarone.

A new drug target to treat depression and other mood disorders may lie in a group of GABA neurons (gamma - aminobutyric acid - the neurotransmitters which inhibit other cells) shown to contribute to symptoms like social withdrawal and increased anxiety, Penn Medicine researchers report in a new study in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Few options currently exist for treating the debilitating «negative» symptoms of severe psychiatric disorders, which include slowed movement, blunted affect, and social withdrawal.

In a report published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), investigators say metformin, an inexpensive drug commonly used to treat patients with type 2 diabetes, appears to block symptoms of nicotine withdrawal in rodents.

Therapies now available are nicotine replacement, an antidepressant and a medication aimed at reducing the cravings for and pleasurable effects of cigarettes, none of which directly treats nicotine withdrawal symptoms, according to Kim.

In proper doses, the researchers thought, metformin might treat the withdrawal symptoms without the side effect of throwing blood glucose out of balance.

PHILADELPHIA — A new drug target to treat depression and other mood disorders may lie in a group of GABA neurons (gamma - aminobutyric acid — the neurotransmitters which inhibit other cells) shown to contribute to symptoms like social withdrawal and increased anxiety, Penn Medicine researchers report in a new study in the Journal of Neuroscience.