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NASEM report changes term from MAT to medication‐based
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32310
Subject(s) - term (time) , medicine , psychiatry , pediatrics , physics , quantum mechanics
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released a report last month that calls for medications to treat opioid use disorder. And the report flatly declares what many in the field have suspected for years: medication‐assisted treatment (MAT) is not the right term.