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Views on medication's role in treatment begin to converge amid deadly epidemic
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
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.32421
Subject(s) - abstinence , guard (computer science) , psychosocial , opioid epidemic , psychiatry , medicine , intensive care medicine , psychology , opioid , computer science , receptor , programming language
One of the most prominent byproducts of the opioid crisis has been experienced as a narrowing, but not an elimination, of the separation between adherents to medication‐ or abstinence‐based approaches to substance use treatment. At least some of the industry's old guard of treatment organizations is increasingly seeing agonist medications as having an important role in treatment, though they also view psychosocial treatment as a critical component to maximizing outcomes in treating a multidimensional illness.