Medication Assisted Treatment and Recovery: 50 Years Later

The story of Medication Treatment Assistance has long been tied to stigmas associated with drug addiction. In years past many people viewed addiction as a criminal behavior due to weak self-control or a personality disorder.  today 1.3 million people around the world are on Medication Maintenance Therapy.  There's stigma throughout our nation where abstinence-based therapies continue to dominate primarily for ideological reasons. However, the majority of the scientists disagree with this notion.  It's changing times as we learn more and more about the biology of the brain.  Even though the use of medication assisted treatment still faces hurdles , we continue to take it one step at a time.