Making Addiction Treatment More Realistic And Pragmatic: The Perfect Should Not Be The Enemy Of The Good

Commentary
par
Volkow, Nora D.

Date de publication

2022

Géographie

USA

Langue de la ressource

English

Texte disponible en version intégrale

Oui

Open Access / OK to Reproduce

Non

Évalué par des pairs

No

Constatations/points à retenir

The magnitude of this crisis demands out-of-the-box thinking and willingness to jettison old, unhelpful, and unsupported assumptions about what treatment and recovery need to look like. Among them is the traditional view that abstinence is the sole aim and only valid outcome of addiction treatment.

Mots clés

Overdose
Clinical guidance
Harm reduction
Policy/Regulatory
Hesitancy of prescribers
About prescribers
Illegal drugs
SCS/OPS