Treatment for Opiate Scourge Grabs More Government Spotlight

Treatment for opiate scourge grabs more government spotlight
Reached last week, Henry Bartlett, who directs a statewide coalition of opiate treatment programs, said in battling chronic long-term opiate addiction, “medicines like Methadone, Buprenorphine, and Vivitrol, combined with counseling, has a far greater …
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Is the AA system of addiction recovery too unscientific to work?
The classic example of maintenance recovery is when heroin addicts take methadone, which allows people to wean themselves of the urge to get high without also going through painful withdrawal at the same time. Though the medical literature suggests …
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