What's Your Favorite Aspect of Addiction Medicine?

methodone is a full agonos treatment that we've been using since he 19 ties for the treatment of opiate use disorder. It was discovered during world war too in germany for pain management. Three incredibly smart scientists, two of whom were women, began using it for people who were struggling with opiate use in new york city in the mid 19 sixties. The problem is that we never learned about it. And so when people say, lots of people die on method n they're describing a period of time when untrained primary care people like myself were prescribing methodone without any knowledge and people did overdose and die. Because it's actually much more complicated to help people have