The Opioid Fix : America's Addiction Crisis and the Solution They Don't Want You to Have /

"The author blames part of the US opioid crisis on policy that espouses abstinence-focused treatment for people addicted to opioids. The author tells the stories of people in recovery and argues that medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, needs to be available to anyone suffering from opioid ab...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Andraka-Christou, Barbara, 1988- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Opioid-Related Disorders > epidemiology
Health Policy
Opiate Substitution Treatment
Opioid-Related Disorders > drug therapy
United States > epidemiology
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What's Nixon got to do with It? A history of medication-assisted treatment
  • A strained relationship : Alcoholics Anonymous and medication-assisted treatment
  • The perils and promises of treatment centers
  • Methadone clinics : maintaining stigma for decades
  • The elusive addiction-treating physician
  • When criminal justice administrators make medical decisions
  • Learning from other countries.

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