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| A Community-Centered Solution for Opioid Addiction
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| 2006-03-13 |
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Clinicians Corner | Of Interest To Everyone
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Addiction to heroin and other opioids poses
serious problems for communities, families, and
individuals. Solutions sometimes seem uncertain, difficult, and controversial. Information about treatment for heroin and other opiates, such as prescription oxycontin, is contained in this brief informative downloadable booklet. |
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| Methadone and the Anti-medication Bias in Addiction Treatment
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| 2006-02-23 |
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Addiction Medicine | Clinicians Corner | Treatment Populations
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There is a deeply entrenched anti-medication bias within the field of addiction treatment. This bias is historically rooted in the iatrogenic insults that have resulted from attempts to treat drug addiction with drugs. The most notorious of these professional practices includes: coaching alcoholics to substitute wine and beer for distilled spirits, treating alcoholism and morphine addiction with cocaine and cannabis, switching alcoholics from alcohol to morphine, failing repeatedly to find an alcoholism vaccine, employing aversive agents that linked alcohol or morphine to the experience of suffocation, and treating alcoholism with drugs that later emerged as problems in their own right, e.g., barbiturates, amphetamines, tranquilizers, and LSD. |
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| Methadone Anonymous
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| 2005-09-19 |
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Clinicians Corner | Treatment Populations
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Have you ever attended a 12-step meeting and were not allowed to "share" because you are a methadone patient? Have you ever gone to one of these meetings and felt like you could not be honest about being a methadone patient because there were things you needed to talk about? If so, Methadone Anonymous may be for you. Why not start a meeting of your own?
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