Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT): Higher Success for Recovery
Recently, the New York Times ran an article proposing that most opiate addicts should receive Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT). I couldn’t agree with them more. Success rates for patients with opiate addiction who are not treated with any form of MAT are horrible....
If I’m Taking Suboxone®, Can I Really be in Recovery?
The answer to this question depends on whom you ask. There are those who define recovery as the complete abstinence from any mind-altering drugs. And Suboxone®, a medication that combines the opioid buprenorphine with the blocker naloxone, does activate opioid...
