A Highly Successful Treatment for Opioid Addiction. But Stigma is Holding it Back.
A Highly Successful Treatment for Opioid Addiction. But Stigma is Holding it Back.
“Medication-assisted treatment is often called the gold standard of addiction care. But much of the country has resisted it.
If you ask Jordan Hansen why he changed his mind on medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction, this is the bottom line.
Several years ago, Hansen was against the form of treatment. If you asked him back then what he thought about it, he would have told you that it’s ineffective — and even harmful — for drug users. Like other critics, to Hansen, medication-assisted treatment was nothing more than substituting one drug (say, heroin) with another (methadone).” – Updated by German Lopez, Vox.com