Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Is “Medically-Assisted Detox” a Misnomer?
The conventional treatment for opioid addiction is medically assisted detox, which, unfortunately, substitutes one legal, FDA-approved narcotic for an illegal one but doesn’t restore the addicted brain. According to the FDA’s commissioned report, “Methadone is a long-term substitute for addictive drugs and becomes a replacement drug because it does not alleviate the root cause of…