Thanks, in part, to the generous support of the NIHCM, this month we are releasing four special episodes on Opioids. We hope you enjoy them. This week’s episode:
Treatment – The best way to deal with opioid addiction is to prevent it, but for a huge and growing number of Americans, it’s too late for that. This episode looks at some of the pharmacotherapy and cognitive therapy options for treating opioid addiction, and looks at how we’ve so far largely failed to treat addicts.
For those of you who want to read more:
- Why opioid substitution therapy is not just replacing one addiction for another
- The Media Needs to Stop Stigmatizing Our Best Weapon Against Heroin Addiction
- Blue Cross cuts back on painkiller prescriptions
- MY BROTHER’S KEEPER
- Treating addiction to prescription opioids
- Treatment of opioid dependence
- Methadone maintenance and the cost and utilization of health care among individuals dependent on opioids in a commercial health plan
- Economic evaluation of interventions to treat opiate dependence : a review of the evidence
- Opioid Dependence Treatment: Options In Pharmacotherapy
