The opioid fix: America's addiction crisis and the solution they don't want you to have

The author blames part of the US opioid crisis on policy that espouses abstinence-focused treatment for people addicted to opioids. The author tells the stories of people in recovery and argues that medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, needs to be available to anyone suffering from opioid abuse. T...

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Main Author: Andraka-Christou, Barbara 1988- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press [2020]
In:Year: 2020
Online Access: Table of Contents (Aggregator)
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Keywords:
Opioid-Related Disorders > drug therapy
Opiate Substitution Treatment
Health Policy
Opioid-Related Disorders > epidemiology
Opioid abuse
Medical policy
Opioid-Related Disorders > drug therapy
Opioid-Related Disorders > epidemiology
Opioid-Related Disorders
Toxicomanie aux opiacés
Politique sanitaire
Medical policy.
Opioid abuse.
United States > epidemiology
United States > epidemiology
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Summary:The author blames part of the US opioid crisis on policy that espouses abstinence-focused treatment for people addicted to opioids. The author tells the stories of people in recovery and argues that medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, needs to be available to anyone suffering from opioid abuse. The interrelated barriers to MAT-from physicians who won't prescribe it, to drug courts that mandate counseling (and counselors who deride it), to politicians who ban it-demonstrate ill-advised narrow-mindedness in the author's view.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (Seite 241-267) and index
Physical Description:276 Seiten
ISBN:978-1-4214-3765-1
1-4214-3765-1