The next drug? The addictions treatment dilemma
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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