Understanding Opioid Addiction Treatment and Types of Medications | Mass General Brigham

How effective are opioid addiction treatments? What are the three different types of opioid addiction treatment? Is using medication treatment just replacing one addiction for another? Joji Suzuki, M.D., M.Sc., Director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Program Director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program, discusses opioid addiction treatments and how they can help people recover.
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Center for Disease Control: www.cdc.gov/opioids/hhs-resou...
National Institute for Health: heal.nih.gov/resources
National Institute on Drug Abuse: www.drugabuse.gov/
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Understanding Opioid Addiction
1:53 - The Treatment
4:28 - Efficacy of Treatments
5:45 - Mass General Brigham Research
6:16 - Helpful Resources
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Understanding Opioid Addiction Treatment and Types of Medications | Mass General Brigham
• Understanding Opioid A...