What's M.A.T.? Medication-Assisted Treatment or . . . .

Have you heard? The disease of opiate addiction has now metastasized to “pandemic” proportions!

Fentanyl is killing our town! Only medical science can save us!

Medication- Assisted Treatment (M.A.T.) is now touted as the “gold standard “ of opioid addiction treatment.

Doctors are transitioning from their avowed specialties to becoming Addiction Medicine providers!

Others are being certified to dispense M.A.T. (i.e. Methadone & Suboxone) to the needy.

How am I doing? Convinced? Making a dent? No? Not buying?

Good! Very good!

Suboxone was never designed to be a maintenance medication. Its ethical utility is to be measured in weeks and months, not years and decades!

What happened? You know. The newbies were taught that altered states invariably lead to an altered state! They are now and forever addicts/alcoholics! Behavior is now biology!

Of course, a life-long problem warrants a life-long address!

The financial incentives to do so have corrupted the proper stewardship of bridge medicines and transformed them into maintenance drugs.

M.A.T. - Medication-Assisted Treatment or Medically A$$imilated Target$?

Medicine to stabilize, tapering to normalize!

You know it’s true!

- Ed @ recoverreality.com (781) 718-5258