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We Know How to Treat Opioid Addiction

Slate magazine’s recent feature on the opioid epidemic provided cutting commentary on the current state of addiction treatment, and confidently proposed solutions that they believe are within reach. Some of their criticisms were valid but their treatment suggestions were reductionist pharmaceutical interventions. The opioid addiction epidemic can be traced to the overprescribing of pharmaceutical pain killers. This was the inevitable outcome of an allopathic dogma that fixates on...