The current misunderstanding around Suboxone as a medication-assisted treatment, MAT, for opiate addiction is confounding. Addiction treatment professionals, whether federally funded treatment providers or private treatment providers, who ban Suboxone from their treatment have much explaining to do. Addiction treatment is complicated in many ways. The job of…
As it stands right now there are restrictions on medically-assisted treatment for opiate addiction. Doctors who prescribe Suboxone and similar drugs are limited to a certain number of patients. There is legislation, though, presented by Sen. Edward Markey and Sen. Rand Paul to loosen these restrictions. Because heroin use is…
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