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Article: Buprenorphine: understanding the newest tool for treatment.(SPECIAL REPORT)(addiction treatment)
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- Addiction Professional
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Addiction treatment professionals are faced with countless clients who suffer under the lash of drugs and alcohol. Clients with opiate addiction are a particularly difficult case. Opiate addiction alters every part of the person's being, requiring a multifaceted treatment approach. The advent of opiate replacement therapy has had a profound impact on the treatment community. Methadone and LAAM offered a method of stabilizing opiate-addicted patients, allowing the various modes of treatment to be more effective. Although the recovery process was slow, success rates for opiate addicts increased dramatically.
Now a new drug has been added to the arsenal. ...