The opioid fix ; America's addiction crisis and the solution they don't want you to have / Barbara Andraka-Christou
By: Andraka-Christou, Barbara [author].
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 276 p: 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781421437651; 1421437651.Subject(s): Opioid abuseGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RC568.O45 A53 2020 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000016533 |
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
"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 abuse. The interrelated barriers to MAT-from physicians who won't prescribe it, to drug courts that mandate counseling (and counselors who deride it), to politicians who ban it-demonstrate ill-advised narrow-mindedness in the author's view"--