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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.

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