Here's why: Describing these treatments as “replacements,” minimizes their validity and implies that the individual is still actively using drugs. Methadone, Suboxone, and Vivitrol are medications prescribed to a person with a substance use disorder. With medication-assisted treatment, substance misuse is stopped, not replaced.
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