REJECTING MAINTENANCE TREATMENT considering IT DOESN’T “CURE”:

October 28th, 2008 | Category: Opiate Addiction

policy has created a pharmacological holding pen in which the UK addicts can be coralled…” The inability after all these decades to accept the fact that addiction is a chronic, notoriously relapsing, treatable but as yet incurable medical condition is mind-boggling. Another such criticism from the UK

(Times OnLine, Oct 3), castigating the head of the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse considering he was “…absolutely unable to explain why only 3% of the 200,000-plus addicts [in UK] are cured each year.” According to the reporter, Government “…

Original post by RGNewman, MD

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