Does Scientific Evidence Support That You Can “Treat a Drug With a Drug”?

Question by Locke: Does scientific evidence support that you can “treat a drug with a drug”?
In other words, can you treat someone with an addiction by treating them with other drugs. Is there scientific evidence for it.

Best answer:

Answer by peanut
Yes. They give Methadone for Heroin addiction and they give (I forgot) for alcohol addiction.

Answer by Christopher R
yeah its been done a lot…

alcoholics get benzos

people addicted to the h get methadone or subox

think of it like this..if you are addicted to the punjabi of girl A but she no longer likes you, you might “wean” yourself off of her by engaging in activities with girl B…

now do I think that treating drug addiction with drugs is proper? probably not, but I am no doctor, but then again I am not pushing SSRIs on people so that I can get a new boat, nor would oh so..to each his own.