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Being on medication complicates sober housing, an alternative for young people after inpatient
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30119
Subject(s) - buprenorphine , naltrexone , methadone , psychiatry , substance use , medicine , substance abuse , opioid , psychology , receptor
When young people go to residential treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs), they are frequently recommended to live in some kind of sober housing setting afterward, rather than returning home to their old temptations. However, if these young people are on buprenorphine — which is, along with methadone and naltrexone, an approved medication for the treatment of opioid use disorders — they may not be welcome in sober homes.

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