Topic: addiction medications
Methadone for Chronic Pain?
Diversion to abuse has been significant. Currently methadone represents only some two percent of all opioid prescriptions, but it’s been implicated in an astounding one-third of all opioid fatalities.
Topics: addiction medications, mortality, opioids, pain, prescription medications
Modern Medicine(s)
Many treatment programs moved away from medication precisely because it wasn’t helping.
Topics: addiction medications, treatment models
Antabuse Redux
It’s designed to prevent drinking on impulse, but if I’m an alcoholic with a history of impulsive drinking, do I really want to mess with this?
Topics: addiction medications, client engagement and motivation, types of treatment
Yes, I’m Annoyed, and You Should Be, Too
We’re in a drug epidemic with no South American cartels or Afghan drug lords to vilify.
Topics: addiction medications, MAT, opioids, prescription medications, treatment
What KIND of Disease is Addiction?
Most communities provide both options for opioid patients, and lacking a methadone for alcohol or cocaine, use a more traditional abstinence-based approach for those addictions.
Topics: abstinence, addiction medications, disease model, MAT, opioids
Practical Advice on Prescription Painkillers
People have abused opiates for 5,000 years. As much as medicine depends on them, they’ve always created problems for a percentage of users.
Topics: addiction medications, alcoholism, opioids, pain, prescription medications, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
