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The White House is calling for more than a billion dollars in funding to transform opioid treatment in the United States, two top administration officials announced on Tuesday.
Until recently, the heroin treatment industry has been driven by the philosophy of “abstinence,” which insists that any form of medication is merely a crutch for an addict, and he or she ought to instead go cold turkey. The opposing view, now being pushed by the established medical community, views medication-assisted treatment that relies on FDA-approved medicines such as buprenorphine and methadone as an addict’s best chance of recovery.
The administration pledged on Tuesday to put the weight of federal funding behind medication-assisted treatment, or MAT. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and drug czar Michael Botticelli announced an enormous boost in federal funds to combat the spiraling heroin epidemic.
Burwell said the new initiative’s aim is “closing…
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