Category: medication-assisted treatment

Easier, Softer Way

In Chapter 5 of the book Alcoholics Anonymous there’s a warning about alcoholics seeking an easier, softer way to deal with alcoholism. Often someone suffering from addiction will seek help through a friend, a pastor, their doctor, a family member or maybe an individual therapist. I…

More on Medication-Assisted Treatment

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…

Medication-Assisted Treatment

I can’t believe there’s still controversy over medication-assisted treatment when dealing with addiction, but there is. The argument against medication-assisted treatment has to do with the idea of using drugs to treat addiction to drugs. On the face of it, it does sound like…