My latest article in Washington Post’s Wonkblog responds to a New York Times series by Deborah Sontag, “Addiction treatment with a dark side,” which examines buprenorphine misuse as a substitution therapy. Buprenorphine is tool to treat opiate disorders, similar to methadone.
Though her piece was well-written, Sontag leaves readers with a misimpression of those with addiction and the treatments used to heal them.
To discuss these issues, I interviewed Brown University’s Peter Friedmann, a general internist, addiction medicine physician and one of the nation’s leading buprenorphine experts.
Read the full write-up here.
Tags: buprenorphine, deborah sontag, heroin addiction, methadone, health care, substitution therapy, new york times, wonkblog, washington post, harold pollack, brown university
Heroin Addiction’s Best Treatment
My latest article in Washington Post’s Wonkblog responds to a New York Times series by Deborah Sontag, “Addiction treatment with a dark side,” which examines buprenorphine misuse as a substitution therapy. Buprenorphine is tool to treat opiate disorders, similar to methadone.
Though her piece was well-written, Sontag leaves readers with a misimpression of those with addiction and the treatments used to heal them.
To discuss these issues, I interviewed Brown University’s Peter Friedmann, a general internist, addiction medicine physician and one of the nation’s leading buprenorphine experts.
Read the full write-up here.
Tags: buprenorphine, deborah sontag, heroin addiction, methadone, health care, substitution therapy, new york times, wonkblog, washington post, harold pollack, brown university