The next drug? The addictions treatment dilemma

Richard Schaub

September 14, 2018
Almost everyone is shocked by the answer to this question: at the beginning of the 20th Century, what was the drug that was used for the treatment of morphine addiction?  The answer is heroin.  We have come a long way in addictions treatment since then, but, in a way, we haven’t moved at all.  We are still looking for the next medically approved (and therefore legal) drug that will substitute for the problematic addictive drug that the patient is struggling with.  The daily headlines about…

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About the Author:

Richard Schaub

Richard Schaub

Richard Schaub, PhD, is the co-director of the Huntington Meditation and Imagery Center and the New York Psychosynthesis Institute, Richard has trained hundreds of health professionals internationally in the clinical applications of meditation, imagery and psychosynthesis.

Co-author of five books: Healing Addictions; Dante's Path; The End of Fear; The Florentine Promise; Transpersonal Development. His CD series of techniques, Transpersonal Development, was created as part of a Federal grant with the Veterans Administration.

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