Medication-Based Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

In this Viewpoint the president of NAM and the former CEO of AAAS emphasize the importance of approaching opioid use disorder (OUD) as a chronic brain disease and of using evidence-based FDA-approved interventions to manage it, urging clinicians to overcome any personal biases that might interfere with provision of evidence-based care to help patients with OUD recover from their addiction.
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research